Ship Fact Shee t BARJORA (1912) Base data at 24 June 1914. Compiled December 2008 * indicates entries changed during P&O Group service. Type Passenger/cargo liner P&O Group service 1914-1949 P&O Group status Owned by subsidiary company Former names(s) Registered owners, British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd managers and operators Builders Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd Yard Glasgow Country UK Yard number 496 Registry Official number 133060 Signal letters Call sign HWGJ Classification society Lloyd’s Register Gross tonnage 3,164 grt Net tonnage 1,908 nrt Deadweight 4,318 tons Length 100.70m (330.4ft) loa; 104.54m (343.0ft) b/p Breadth 14.08m (46.2ft) Depth 7.10m (23.3ft) Draught 6.614m (21.7ft) Engines Triple-expansion steam engine Engine builders Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd Works Glasgow Country UK Power 2,255 ihp Propulsion Single screw Speed 12.38 knots (trials) Passenger capacity 12 first class, 24 second class, 1,100 deck passengers Cargo capacity Crew Employment* Slow Gulf mail service BI 1914/0624 BARJORA (1912) Career 04.06.1912: Launched. 10.07.1912: Ran trials and delivered as Barjora for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £61,100. She was the fourth of the new B- class ships to be delivered with her sisters Baroda, Barala, Bankura, Bandra, Barpeta , and Bamora . 24.06.1914: Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed. 09.1914: Taken up as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport. 10.1914: Part of the third major convoy from India. 11.1914: Involved in the landings at Tanga, her troops providing small-arms covering fire from her decks during the withdrawal. She then acted as an ambulance transport to Mombassa. 1914/1918: Remained on transport duty on the East African coast. 06.1919: Released from transport duty. 08.1939/ She was taken up as an Armament Stores Issuing Ship. 12.1939: 03.1940: Joined the Liner Division. 1942: Spent eight months as a Personnel and Military Store Ship. 12.1942: Became a Mechanical Transport Ship. 26.04.1949: Sold for £10,500 to British Iron & Steel Co for breaking up. 07.1949: Broken up by Clayton & Davie Ltd in Dunston-on-Tyne. - ends - BI 1914/0624 .