Name MV Harpa Identification Callsign GTQK Launched 5 December 1930 Draft 5.87 m | Yard number Build number 575 Fate Sunk 27 January 1942 Length 93 m | |
Builder Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd., Hebburn | ||
MV Harpa was an oil tanker of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company (later Royal Dutch/Shell) and was in service with the British Merchant Navy during World War II.
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Bombing
Bombed 22 December 1941 at Port Swettenham, with the loss of 4 engineering officers:
Cheras Road Civil Cemetery (Malaysia)
Sinking
Was sunk by a British seamine in Main Strait, Singapore† en route to Batavia with a full cargo of aviation spirit on 27 January 1942 with the loss of 7 British officers, 2 Royal Navy DEMS gunners and 25 Chinese crew:
Tower Hill Memorial (London)
Kranji War Cemetery (Singapore)
Book of Remembrance (NUMAST)
Hong Kong War Memorial
†Tom Simkins MBE, Chief Radio Officer of SS Pinna, stated the sinking to be in the Rhio Strait (now Riau Strait, between Batam and Bintan Islands).