NARKUNDA

1920-1942

16,118gt

Like her near sister Naldera, Narkunda had a lengthy construction time, having been ordered in 1913. Narkunda was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast. She did not enter service during the war, and was passed to P&O at its end. She entered service on 30th March 1920, five days after her sister Naldera.

They were the first three-funnelled P&O liners and the first with cruiser sterns. Narkunda ran on the mail service to Australia, and later to the Far East, carrying 673 passengers (426 of which were first class). Narkunda was converted to oil firing in 1927 (unlike her sister) which extended her career.

She continued in passenger service until 1940, making trips to Shanghai and Cape Town after war had been declared. Used as a troopship thereafter, Narkunda was bombed and sunk in 1942 during the African landings, the third of three P&O ships to be lost there.

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