Jumna (ship, 1929)
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The Jumna (II) was a 1929 passenger ship of the British shipping company Nourse Line , which was used in passenger and freight traffic between Great Britain and India . On December 25, 1940, the Jumna was sunk north of the Azores by the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper . None of the 108 passengers and crew members survived.
The ship
The 6078-ton, from steel -built steamship Jumna was at Alexander Stephen and Sons in Glasgow's Linthouse built and ran on 24 January 1929 by the stack. The owner was the British shipping company Nourse Line, founded by James Nourse in Greenock in 1861 , which operated passenger and freight services from Great Britain to India and the West Indies . Completion took place in April 1929 and shortly afterwards it was put into service.
The Jumna was the successor to a sailing ship of the same name put into service in 1867 and the second ship of the Nourse Line with this name. She was the middle of three sister ships , the Saugor (6303 GRT) put into service in 1928 and the Ganges (6246 GRT) put into service in 1930 . The Jumna had a funnel, three masts and a propeller and was powered by a three-cylinder steam turbine that developed 612 nominal horsepower and could accelerate the ship to 11 knots.
On April 9, 1940, the Jumna was drafted for military service and placed under the control of the Liner Division.
Sinking
On Wednesday, December 25, 1940, the Jumna was with 64 crew members and 44 passengers on board under the command of Captain Norman Robert Burgess on a journey from Liverpool to Calcutta via Freetown . In Liverpool she had cast off as part of the OB 260 convoy , but now she drove alone.
She was finally sighted north of the Azores by the Admiral Hipper , who was under the command of Captain Wilhelm Meisel . The heavy cruiser sank the passenger ship at position 44 51N, 27 45W with gunfire. None of the 108 people on board survived the attack.