The 10,883 GRT steamship Malwa belongs to P & O's M-class passenger and mail ships. Between 1903 and 1911 a total of ten more or less identical ships of this class were put into service. The sister ships of the Malwa were the Moldavia (1903), which Mongolia (1903), the Marmora (1903), the Macedonia (1904), the Mooltan (1905), the Morea (1908), the Mantua (1909), the Maloja ( 1911) and the Medina (1911). Six of these ten ships were sunk by German torpedoes or sea mines during World War I , killing a total of 250 people. The last one to be scrapped was the Mantua in Shanghai in 1935 .
The Malwa was built by Caird & Company in Greenock, Scotland , and was launched there on October 10, 1908. The ship, 171.30 meters long and 18.65 meters wide, had two chimneys, two masts and two propellers . It was powered by a quadruple expansion steam engine that developed 15,000 hp and allowed a top speed of 18 knots. The passenger accommodations were designed for 407 passengers in the first and 200 passengers in the second class.
The Malwa was completed on December 20, 1908 and ran on January 29, 1909 in Tilbury on her maiden voyage to Colombo , Melbourne and Sydney . In 1910 she collided with the British steamer Nairn off Colombo . From 1917 the Malwa was used as a troop transport in the First World War. She survived the war and resumed her regular service in Australia on September 24, 1920. It remained constant on this route until it was sold to Japan for demolition on December 26, 1932 . It was scrapped in Osaka .
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