SS Mutlah explained

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Ship Name:SS Mutlah
Ship Owner:
  • Nourse Line (1907-1921)
  • Soc di Nav Latina (1921-1923)
  • Occidens Soc. Anon di Nav (1923)
Ship Registry:
Ship Builder:Charles Connell & Company Limited, Glasgow
Ship Launched:16 April 1907
Ship Fate:Disappeared 29 December 1923
Ship Type:Cargo ship
Ship Tonnage:3641 gross register tons
Ship Length:106.56m (349.61feet)
Ship Beam:13.41m (44feet)
Ship Draught:5.91m (19.39feet)
Ship Propulsion:Triple expansion steam engine 425hp, one shaft
Ship Speed:12 knots
SS Mutlah was a 3,393-ton steamship built for the Nourse Line in 1907 by Charles Connell & Company Limited, Glasgow, Scotland. She disappeared along with her crew of 40 after sending a distress call on 29 December 1923 while sailing in the Mediterranean Sea.[1] The ship had triple expansion, 425-nhp (317-kW) steam engines driving a single screw.

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

DestinationDate of ArrivalNumber of PassengersDeaths During Voyage
4 September 1907844 11
Trinidad 4 September 1908415 7
2 May 1909 834n/a
Trinidad 29 August 1909 8328
Trinidad 7 October 1910 77013
Trinidad 25 January 1911 8429
22 May 1911 834 n/a
Fiji 18 August 1911 863 n/a
Trinidad 28 December 1911 7052
Suriname 14 May 1912 8429
Trinidad 14 October 1912 4451
Trinidad 5 February 1913 3172
Suriname 23 June 1913 n/a n/a
Trinidad 26 November 1913 2090
Trinidad 20 January 1914 2790
Fiji 7 May 1915 852 n/a
Fiji 1 August 1915 812 n/a

Mutlah caught fire at Naples, Italy, and sank on 24 March 1920.[2] She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

In 1921 she was purchased by Soc di Nav Latina, Naples, Italy. In 1923 she was purchased by Occidens Soc. Anon di Nav, Genoa, Italy.[3]

On 29 December 1923 she was in the Mediterranean Sea west-southwest of Sardinia on a voyage from Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, to Antwerp, Belgium, with a cargo of grain when she sent a distress signal, reporting her position as 38.6667°N 40°W. She then disappeared without trace. She is presumed to have foundered with the loss of all hands.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. "Italian Ship With Crew of Forty is Lost", Vancouver Daily World, January 3, 1924, p. 1
  2. Casualty reports . 25 March 1920 . 25 . 42368 . D .
  3. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?32042 wrecksite.eu SS Mutlah (+1923)
  4. Reinsurance rates . 15 January 1924 . 18 . 43549 . E .