SS Madras City
From Our Contribution
 photograph by Walter E. Frost | |
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SS Madras City |
| Owner | Reardon Smith Line of Cardiff |
| Builder | Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Haverton Hil |
| Completed | 1940 |
| In service | 1940 |
| Out of service | 1971 |
| Fate | broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | cargo |
| Tonnage | 5,092 tons |
| Length | 126.7m |
| Beam | 17.3m |
| Speed | 10.5 knots (19.45 km/h) |
Remarks
Was a component of Convoy BM.13 from Bombay to Colombo where it spent some time before it joined Convoy SU.1 from Colombo (25 Feb 1942 ) to Fremantle. From Fremantle it sailed independently to Adelaide disembarking troops there on 23 Mar 1942. Madras City spent time in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean participating in a large number of convoys during the war before being Laid up at Cardiff docks in February 1958
Sold to Pakistan (now Bangladesh) owners - Chittagong SS Corp Ltd, Chittagong in 1958, and renamed Chittagong City. Broken up for scrap at Somiani Beach in April 1971 by Bakshi & Co.
Soldiers carried
Bombay to Adelaide 9 February to 23 March 1942
Was a component of Convoy BM.13 from Bombay to Colombo where it spent some time before it joined Convoy SU.1 from Colombo (25 Feb 1942 ) to Fremantle. From Fremantle it sailed independently to Adelaide.