SS Maloja
Peninsula and Oriental line steamer Maloja | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | SS Maloja |
| Owner | P&O Steam Navigation Co |
| Port of registry | Belfast |
| Route | Tilbury – Bombay |
| Builder | Harland and Wolff Ltd, Belfast |
| Yard number | 414 |
| Launched | 17 December 1910 |
| Completed | 7 September 1911 |
| Fate | Mined off Dover, 27 February 1916 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | P&O M-class passenger liner |
| Tonnage | 12,431 GRT |
| Length | 550.4 ft (167.8 m) |
| Beam | 62.9 ft (19.2 m) |
| Depth | 34.4 ft (10.5 m) |
| Installed power | 1,164 NHP |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Capacity | 670 passengers |
| Crew | 301 (British officers & Lascar crew) |
| Armament | Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship |
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SS Maloja was an M-class passenger steamship of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. She was completed in 1911 and worked a regular route between Great Britain and India. In 1916 in the First World War she was sunk by a mine in the English Channel off Dover with the loss of 155 lives.