INANDA
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date1888
Object NameSTEAMER
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 271' x breadth 35 1/12' x depth 24 11/12'
Gross Tonnage: 1758 ton
Gross Tonnage: 1758 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001890
Keywords
Yard Number: 247
Official Number: 94523
Subsequent Names: ABD-EL-MONEM (1903); MENZALEH (1905)
Fate: torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB105 230 miles ESE of Malta, 6 June 1918.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Two decks, two masts, brigantine rigged, round stern, clench built, no gallery, no head and steel framework. Electric light fitted.
Owners:
01/06/1888: Registered for owner John Thompson Rennie
02/1903: sold to the Khedive of Egypt.
1905: sold to Khedivial Mail Steamship & Graving Dock Co., Ltd London. Used on Red Sea and Levant services.
Masters:
1893: Master Moore
General History:
12/05/1888:
Finely modelled screw passenger steamer INANDA launched by Hall Russell for J.T. Rennie & Sons for London-Natal trade, Miss Madge Wilson, daughter of senior partner in Hall Russel, gracefully performed christening ceremony. Vessel glided along the ways without hitch to cheers of onlookers, she was then towed to sheer poles, where masts and engines are to be fitted. Company adjourned to one of building lofts for wine and cake banquet, among present G. Hall Rennie and Alex Rennie, owners of ship.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
06/06/1888:
Gold Fields - for Port Natal, magnificent new steamer INANDA, fitted with electric light, bells and all modern equipment for 1st class passengers, will sail from London docks 19 June. Carries stewardess.
(Standard)
09/06/1888:
INANDA took her departure after cruising about the bay to test the engines after series of progressive trials maintained mean speed of 12 and a half knots, engines going very smoothly. Large company went out to bay and many gentlemen aboard to London. Commanded by Capt. Stewart, late of DOBULANANZI. Capt. Smith, and old servant of the company, acted as pilot.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
30/06/1888:
INANDA, London for Port Natal, arrived Tenerife 29 June.
(Glasgow Herald)
30/09/1888:
Sailing for Port Natal early October, will carry surgeon, piano. [Left Gravesend 11 Oct.]
(Standard)
15/01/1889:
INANDA will sail 25 Jan. for Port Natal, calling at Tenerife.
(Standard)
29/03/1889:
Left Port Natal 27 March for London.
(Glasgow Herald)
05/1889:
Will sail 9 May to Natal, calling at Tenerife to land passengers.
(Standard)
17/12/1894:
Steamer INANDA from London arrived Portland and proceeded for Natal.
(Freeman’s Journal)
22/12/1898:
Steamer INANDA, for Natal, anchored Gravesend with machinery defective.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
06/06/1918: the vessel was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB105 230 miles ESE of Malta on voyage from Alexandria to Bristol with a cargo of cotton seed. Ten lives were lost and the master was taken prisoner. Saleh Abus (fireman), Evaristo Fonsea (fireman), Jurenal Gonzalez (fireman), A. Hutton (third engineer), Abdul Moin Ibrahim (fireman), Daud Ibrahim (fireman), George Sidney Magee (first engineer), Mohammad Saqi (fireman), S. Thomas (sailor).
(wrecksite)
Notes:
Engine details: Steam ship by a screw, one set, triple, direct acting, 21"x34"x56" with 42" stroke, 220 HP, 1506.5 IHP by Hall Russell.
Number 2 boiler, 13'4" diameter, 10'4" in length, 6 furnaces with 3006 square feet heating area and 160 psi.
Propeller: 14'4" in diameter, solid cast iron.
In 1904 Hall Russell built another INANDA for Rennie.
See also:
History (CS): - http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=51606&vessel=INANDA
Wrecksite: - http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?158777
U-Boat net: - http://www.uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/4079.html
There is a photograph in the Liverpool Maritime Museum archives, Accession No. MCR/45/87, which may be of the INANDA as the MENZALEH
