HMT Egra
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| History | |
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| Name | HMT Egra |
| Owner | British India Steam Navigation Co. |
| Builder | Workman, Clark & Co Ltd of Belfast |
| Yard number | 307 |
| Launched | 14 Mar 1911 |
| Completed | August 1911 |
| In service | 1911 |
| Out of service | 1950 |
| Fate | broken up 1950 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger/cargo liner |
| Tonnage | 5,109 tons |
| Length | 410 ft (124.97m) |
| Beam | 52 ft 8 in (16.05m) |
| Depth | 24 ft 7 in (7.50m) |
| Propulsion | Twin screw |
| Speed | 16 knots (29.63 km/h) |
| Capacity | 50 first class, 36 second class, 2,182 deck passengers |
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Remarks
Built for the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd. She entered service in August of 1911 and in September of 1914 trooped to Marseilles from Bombay carrying elements of the Indian Expeditionary Force. She also attended the Basra Landings in the December of the same year and spent the remainder of the war as a Troop Transport. In 1922 she ran aground off Amoy sustaining only minor damage, and spent the remainder of her pre- Second War career without major event.
She served as a Troop Transport from July 1940 to November of 1946 seeing service from Karachi to Basra April 1941, August 1941 Bombay- Port Swettenham. On the 26 Nov 1943 she was in convoy with Rohna when the latter was sank by a glider bomb and in January of 1945 she was a Supply and Troop Transport for the Kyaukpyu Landings in Burma.
Just before decommissioning she ran aground in the Hooghly River on 27 Oct 1946 and it wasn't until 7 November that she was refloated. She remained in service until January 1950 before being sold for scrap to the Steel Corporation of Bombay on 1 Feb 1950.