SS Jalabala (1927)

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Still of Jalabala from film, India's Struggle for National Shipping
History
British India
NameSS Jalabala
OwnerScindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd.[1]
Port of registry
Bombay
Route
Bombay – Karachi
BuilderLithgows, Glasgow[1]
Yard number801 (Kingston SB Yard)[2]
LaunchedJanuary 1927
Christened14 July 1927
Completed12 August 1927[2]
IdentificationOfficial number 153807[1]
FateTorpedoed and sunk by U-532 on 11 October 1943[3]
General characteristics
TypeCargo general (Steel Screw Steamer)
Tonnage3,610 GRT, 2,211 NRT, 3345 tons under deck[1][2]
Length349.9 ft (106.65 m)[1]
Beam49.0 ft (14.94 m)[1]
Depth24.3 ft (7.41 m)[1]
Installed power398 hp[1]
PropulsionSteam
Speed10 knots
Crew74
Notesas per
Lloyd's Register of Shipping[1]

SS Jalabala was the cargo

Cape Comorin by the German submarine U-532 with the loss of five of her 77 crew members on 11 October 1943 during World War II.[3]

Design

She was built by

Bombay and was registered in port of Bombay. She was 304.9 feet long, 49.0 feet broad and 24.3 feet deep.[1][2][4]

Career and fate

British India, performed her ceremonial ship launching in Glasgow on 14 July 1927.[5][6] The footage of launching was later presented in documentary film India's Struggle for National Shipping (1947). The ship was completed on 12 August 1927.[7][8][9][10][11]

Mahatma Gandhi had written his concerns in Young India on its launch,

The ceremony ... does not evoke any feeling of national pride or rejoicing. It only serves as a reminder of our fallen state. What is the addition of one little ship to our microscopic fleet? The sadness of the reminder is heightened by the fact that our mercantile fleet may at any moment be turned into a fleet warring against our own liberty or against that of nations with which India has no quarrel...

— Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 4 August 1927[5][12][6]

The ship was used to transport cargo between

Manglore on 15 October.[3][13][4][14]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Lloyd's Register of Shipping". Plimsoll ShipData. Archived from the original on 6 February 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d "JALABALA". The Clyde Shipbuilding Database Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "Jalabala". Uboat. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  4. ^ a b "SS Jalabala (+1943)". Wrecksite. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
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    ISBN 978-93-5118-148-4
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  6. ^ a b Narayan Gopal Jog (1969). Saga of Scindia: Struggle for the Revival of Indian Shipping and Shipbuilding [1919–1969]. Scindia Steam Navigation Company. p. 52.
  7. ^ Shikha Kumar (12 June 2014). "A Struggle in Restoration". The Indian Express. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  8. ^ Mistry, Ketan (14 December 2015). "ભારતીય સમુદ્રી જહાજના ઇતિહાસનો કોહિનૂર..." [Kohinoor of Indian Shipping History]. Chitralekha (in Gujarati): 36–38.
  9. ^ "Launch of the "Jalabala"". Fairplay Weekly Shipping Journal. Fairplay Publications Limited. 21 July 1927. p. 165.
  10. ^ Shipbuilding & Shipping Record: A Journal of Shipbuilding, Marine Engineering, Dock, Harbours & Shipping. July 1927. p. 116.
  11. ^ The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-builder. Shipbuilder Press. 1927. p. 446.
  12. ^ Gandhi, Mahatma (4 August 1927). "328. Indian Shipping (Young India)". The Collected Works Of Mahatma Gandhi (Electronic Book) (PDF). Vol. 39. New Delhi: Publications Division, Government of India (published 1999). pp. 334–335.
  13. ^ "Scindia S.N. Co". TheShipsList. 14 April 1944. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  14. ISBN 978-0-7509-2760-4
    .

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