About: SS Yoma

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SS Yoma was a British passenger liner that served as a troop ship in the Second World War. She was built in Scotland in 1928, and from then until 1940 Yoma ran a regular route between Glasgow in Scotland and Rangoon in Burma via Liverpool, Palma, Marseille and Egypt. She became a troop ship in 1941 and was sunk with great loss of life in the Mediterranean in 1943.

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  • SS Yoma was a British passenger liner that served as a troop ship in the Second World War. She was built in Scotland in 1928, and from then until 1940 Yoma ran a regular route between Glasgow in Scotland and Rangoon in Burma via Liverpool, Palma, Marseille and Egypt. She became a troop ship in 1941 and was sunk with great loss of life in the Mediterranean in 1943. Yoma was a ship of the Henderson Line of Glasgow. She was managed by P Henderson & Company and initially owned jointly by two other P Henderson companies: British and Burmese Steam Navigation Company Ltd and Burmah Steam Ship Company Ltd. From 1934 the British and Burmese SN Co Ltd was Yoma's sole owner. Yoma was one of a family of similarly sized liners built for Henderson's by William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton on the River Clyde. These were , , and Sagaing – completed in 1920, '21, '24 and '25 respectively. Each was about 8,000 gross register tons (GRT) and carried cargo as well as passengers. (en)
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  • 1928-08-02 (xsd:date)
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  • Sunk by torpedo
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  • Approximate position of Yomas wreck: just off the coast of Cyrenaica northwest of Derna (en)
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  • Sunk by torpedo (en)
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  • *code letters LCNT * *Call sign GJKS * *UK official number 160225 (en)
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  • Yoma (en)
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  • *British & Burmese SN Co Ltd ; *Burmah SS Co Ltd (en)
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  • single screw driven by quadruple expansion steam engine; augmented from 1939 by a reduction-geared low-pressure steam turbine (en)
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  • Glasgow (en)
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  • : Glasgow – Liverpool – Palma – Marseille – Egypt – Rangoon (en)
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  • * *tonnage under deck 6,503 * (en)
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  • SS Yoma was a British passenger liner that served as a troop ship in the Second World War. She was built in Scotland in 1928, and from then until 1940 Yoma ran a regular route between Glasgow in Scotland and Rangoon in Burma via Liverpool, Palma, Marseille and Egypt. She became a troop ship in 1941 and was sunk with great loss of life in the Mediterranean in 1943. (en)
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