History | |
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Namesake: | Malakand Agency |
Owner: | Brocklebank Line |
Builder: | Harland & Wolff |
Yard number: | 373 |
Launched: | 11 November 1905 |
Completed: | 14 December 1906 |
Fate: | Sunk 20 April 1917 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Cargo liner |
SS Malakand was a 7,653-gross register ton cargo liner built by Harland & Wolff in 1905 for the Brocklebank shipping line, the first of two Brocklebank Line ships named after the Malakand area of the Indian subcontinent.[1]
Malakand operated on a regular service between Liverpool, England , and Calcutta, India . During World War I, she was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 145 nautical miles (269 km) west of Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly ( [ ⚑ ] 49°20′N 10°00′W / 49.333°N 10°W), on 20 April 1917 by the Imperial German Navy submarine U-84 with the loss of one crew member.[1][2][3]
A replacement ship of the same name, SS Malakand, was launched in 1919.
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS Malakand (1905).
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