Name SS Mutlah Launched 1907 | Type Cargo ship | |
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Owner Nourse Line (1907-1921)
Soc di Nav Latina (1921-1923)
Occidens Soc. Anon di Nav (1923) Port of registry United Kingdom (1907-1921)
Italy (1921-1923) Fate Disappeared 29 December 1923 Tonnage 3641 gross register tons Builder Charles Connell and Company | ||
SS Mutlah was a 3,393-ton steamship built for the Nourse Line in about 1906 by Charles Connell & Company Limited, Glasgow, Scotland. She had triple expansion, 425-nhp (317-Kw) steam engines driving a single screw.
Like other Nourse Line ships, she was primarily used for the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies. Details of some of these voyages are as follows:
Mutlah caught fire at Naples, Italy, and sank on 24 March 1920. 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.
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°40′N 006°34′E. She then disappeared without trace. She is presumed to have foundered with the loss of all hands.