SS Chenab

U-boats U-2502 and U-2326 moored alongside Al Rawdah in 1945
History
Name:
  • Chenab (1911–31)
  • Ville de Beyrouth (1931–39)
  • Al Rawdah (1939–53)
Owner:
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Launched: 1911
Fate: Scrapped 1953
General characteristics
Tonnage: 3,930 GRT
Installed power: 425 NHP
Propulsion:

SS Chenab was a 3,930 GRT steamship built for the Nourse Line in 1911 by Cammell Laird and Company Limited of Birkenhead. She had a 425 NHP triple expansion steam engine driving a single screw.

Like other Nourse Line ships, she was primarily used for the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies. Details of some of these voyages are as follows:

Destination Date of
Arrival		 Number of
Passengers		 Deaths During
Voyage
Trinidad 7 November 1911 451 3
Trinidad 7 March 1912 350 5
Suriname 8 July 1912 n/a n/a
British Guiana 1912 n/a n/a
Trinidad 8 November 1912 410 5
Trinidad 13 March 1913 96 0
Suriname 7 July 1913 n/a n/a
Fiji 24 March 1914 855 n/a
Trinidad 12 September 1914 179 0
Fiji 16 June 1914 717
Fiji 1 September 1916 717 n/a
Trinidad 10 December 1916 627 2

Chenab was sold in 1930 to the Khedivial Mail Line of Alexandria, and in 1931 resold to the Cie de Navigation Libano-Syrienne of Beirut and renamed Ville de Beyrouth. By 1936 she owned by the Societe Orientale de Navigation of Beirut, and in 1939 was renamed Al Rawdah.[1]

In 1940 the ship was requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport, serving as Al Rawdah under the management of the British India Steam Navigation Company.[2] Al Rawdah was moored in Strangford Lough near Killyleagh in 1940, and was used as a prison ship for Irish republican internees.[3] By early 1945 Al Rawdah was stationed in Holy Loch[4] being used as an accommodation ship attached to the 3rd Submarine Flotilla.[5] She was returned to the Khedivial Mail Line in 1946, and was finally scrapped at Rosyth in 1953.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Khedivial Mail Line". theshipslist.com. 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "British-India Fleet list". biship.com. 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  3. ↑ "Second World War in Northern Ireland". ww2ni.webs.com. 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  4. ↑ "Dorset Submariners: HMS Sidon". dorsetsubmariners.org.uk. 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  5. ↑ Houterman, Hans (2012). "Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945 (H)". unithistories.com. Retrieved 9 November 2012.

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