SS Golconda (1887)

Golconda

History
United Kingdom
Name:	SS Golconda
Owner:	British India Steam Navigation Company
Builder:	William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, England
Fate:	Sunk by mine 3 June 1916
General characteristics
Tonnage:	5,874 GT
Length:	422 ft (129 m)
Beam:	41.8 ft (12.7 m)

SS Golconda was a 5,874 gross ton passenger ship built in 1887 by William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, England. She was 422 feet (129 m) long with a beam of 41.8 feet (12.7 m) and had two funnels and was operated by the British India Steam Navigation Company. In 1915 six hundred German civilian internees from the camp in Ahmednagar were transported to London on the Golconda, from where they were repatriated via the Netherlands.^[1] A further group of five hundred Germans were repatriated in a similar way in March 1916.^[2] Golconda struck a mine and sank in the North Sea on 3 June 1916, 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) south east by east of Aldeburgh, Suffolk (52°08′30″N 1°44′45″E / 52.14167°N 1.74583°E) with the loss of nineteen lives.^[3] She was lost while on a voyage from Tees and London to Calcutta with general cargo.

References

1. http://gaebler.info/ahnen/gaebler/else.htm#4
2. http://gaebler.info/politik/indien-1.htm#0
3. "Golconda". Uboat.net. Retrieved 18 November 2012.