INDIA HMS 1896
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 8:09 pm
Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard No 281 by Caird and Co. Ltd., Greenock for the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co, (P&O).
15 April 1896 launched as the INDIA.
Tonnage 7,911 gross, 4,185 net., dim. 152.37 (bpp) x 16.55 x 7.65m.
Powered by one triple expansion steam engine manufactured by shipbuilder, 11,000 ihp, one shaft. Speed 18 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 317 first, 152 2nd class passengers.
03 September 1896 completed.
12 September 1896 left builders yard, building cost £234,597.
Used in the service first between the U.K. and Bombay, India.
28 January 1898 first sailing from the U.K. to Australia.
13 March 1915 hired by the British Admiralty for service as an armed merchant cruiser (AMC).
Armament?.
Commissioned as HMS INDIA (M-81)
Served in the 10th Cruiser Squadron in the Northern Patrol after her refit, crew about 300 men.
08 August 1915 under command of William George Kennedy she was stationed off the coast of Norway, enforcing the blockade, intercepting and checking neutral shipping. She stopped two ships that day, both proven Swedish. At 05 pm that day inshore another ship was sighted in the entrance to Vestfjord, after speaking to the ship she was given that she was the British ship HILLHOUSE from South Shields and bound for Archangel, she was inside the Norway territorial waters of Norway, so they could not board her.
The INDIA headed out to sea, but the crew on board noticed that the HILLHOUSE was steering a southerly course. The INDIA altered again course inside to intercept the HILLHOUSE and board her.
At 05.41 pm the INDIA was hit by a torpedo on the starboard side fired from the submerged U boat U-22 under command of Bruno Hoppe in position 67 30N 13 20E about eight miles of the island of Hellingvaer.
The INDIA made water and settled quickly by the stern, the bow lifted out of the water, the forward guns carried away and she broke in two where after she sank quickly with the loss of 166 men.
The survivors were picked up by the British armed trawler SAXON and several Norwegian vessels who landed them in Norway where she were interned.
Guyana 2015 $80 sg?, scott?
Source: P& O A Fleet History by World Ship Society. Armed Merchant Cruisers 1878-1945 by Osborne, Spong & Grover. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era 1860-1919 by David Hepper.
15 April 1896 launched as the INDIA.
Tonnage 7,911 gross, 4,185 net., dim. 152.37 (bpp) x 16.55 x 7.65m.
Powered by one triple expansion steam engine manufactured by shipbuilder, 11,000 ihp, one shaft. Speed 18 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 317 first, 152 2nd class passengers.
03 September 1896 completed.
12 September 1896 left builders yard, building cost £234,597.
Used in the service first between the U.K. and Bombay, India.
28 January 1898 first sailing from the U.K. to Australia.
13 March 1915 hired by the British Admiralty for service as an armed merchant cruiser (AMC).
Armament?.
Commissioned as HMS INDIA (M-81)
Served in the 10th Cruiser Squadron in the Northern Patrol after her refit, crew about 300 men.
08 August 1915 under command of William George Kennedy she was stationed off the coast of Norway, enforcing the blockade, intercepting and checking neutral shipping. She stopped two ships that day, both proven Swedish. At 05 pm that day inshore another ship was sighted in the entrance to Vestfjord, after speaking to the ship she was given that she was the British ship HILLHOUSE from South Shields and bound for Archangel, she was inside the Norway territorial waters of Norway, so they could not board her.
The INDIA headed out to sea, but the crew on board noticed that the HILLHOUSE was steering a southerly course. The INDIA altered again course inside to intercept the HILLHOUSE and board her.
At 05.41 pm the INDIA was hit by a torpedo on the starboard side fired from the submerged U boat U-22 under command of Bruno Hoppe in position 67 30N 13 20E about eight miles of the island of Hellingvaer.
The INDIA made water and settled quickly by the stern, the bow lifted out of the water, the forward guns carried away and she broke in two where after she sank quickly with the loss of 166 men.
The survivors were picked up by the British armed trawler SAXON and several Norwegian vessels who landed them in Norway where she were interned.
Guyana 2015 $80 sg?, scott?
Source: P& O A Fleet History by World Ship Society. Armed Merchant Cruisers 1878-1945 by Osborne, Spong & Grover. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era 1860-1919 by David Hepper.