SS Vadala
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SS Vadala was a cargo steamship that was launched in Scotland in 1890, renamed Kenkon Maru No. 12 in 1913, and sank as the result of a collision in 1928. She was built for the British India Steam Navigation Company (BI). In 1895 she took Indian indentured labourers to Fiji. In 1899 was a troop ship in the Second Boer War. From 1913 she was in Japanese ownership.
Building
In 1890 William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton on the River Leven built a pair of sister ships for BI for £59,600 each.Template:Sfn Yard number 440 was launched on 4 August as Vadala and completed on 13 September.[1] Yard number 441 was launched on 15 September as Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and completed that October.[2]
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Vadala had a single screw, driven by a quadruple-expansion steam engine. It was rated at 315 NHPTemplate:Sfn or 1,800 ihp,[3] and gave her a speed of Script error: No such module "convert"..Template:Sfn
Vadala
BI registered Vadala at Glasgow. Her United Kingdom official number was 98575 and her code letters were LVKP.Template:Sfn
On 21 February 1895 Vadala left Calcutta carrying 767 Indian indentured labourers to Fiji. On her voyage a measles epidemic killed 14 of her passengers. On 26 March she reached Suva, where she was quarantined.[3]
All BI ships were designed to be converted into troop ships, by putting troop accommodation in the holds.Template:Sfn In the Second Boer War the UK Government chartered at least 37 BI ships for war service.Template:Sfn On 21 September 1899 Vadala left Bombay (now Mumbai) carrying a squadron of the 19th Royal Hussars. She reached Durban on 7 October.[4]
From July 1900 BI put Vadala on its route between Calcutta and Hong Kong.Template:Sfn
Kenkon Maru No. 12
In 1913 Inui Gomei Kasha bought Vadala for £12,000, and renamed her Kenkon Maru No. 12.Template:Sfn She was registered at Dairen in the Kwantung Leased Territory, and her code letters were QBJL.Template:Sfn
On 30 May 1928 Kenkon Maru No. 12 was involved in a collision with the Chinese steamship Hawchan in the Straits of Tsingtao (now Qingdao), about Script error: No such module "convert". east-southeast of Tsingtao.[1]
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