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Name: MATA HARI
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 03/03/1915
Completed: 27/05/1915
Builder: Charles Rennoldson & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 167
Dimensions: 1020grt, 511nrt, 220.0 x 35.2 x 13.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (17.5, 29 & 47 x 30ins), 165nhp
Engines by: Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 134962
History:
27/05/1915 British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd, South Shields
1924 Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, South Shields
01/09/1939 The Admiralty
1942 Japanese Navy; renamed YUMIHARI
27/12/1943 Japanese Government; renamed NICHIRIN MARU
02/03/1945 Sank
Comments: Accommodation for 8 x cabin passengers and 645 x deck passengers
Designed for operating on the Malayan feeder services
01/09/1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as an auxiliary patrol vessel
15/02/1942: Captured by Japanese forces 15 miles off Muntok,
on a voyage from Singapore to Batavia carrying refugees
02/03/1945: Sank in a US Navy air attack about 150 miles west of
Okinawa, in position 27.10N - 124.35E


Above photo as MATA HARI is courtesy of Photoship