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SS ''Umona'' was a British cargo and passenger liner. She was built at Sunderland on the River Wear in 1910, survived the First World War and was sunk by enemy action off Sierra Leone, West Africa in 1941. ''Umona'' spent her entire 31-year career with Bullard, King and Company. She was the second of the company's ships of that name. The first was a cargo liner that had been built at Sunderland in 1890 and wrecked off the Maldives in the Indian Ocean in 1903. Bullard, King gave all its ships African names to highlight its Natal Direct line, which had linked Middlesbrough and London with Durban in Natal Province since 1879 and later with ports in Portuguese Mozambique and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. ==Building== Sir John Laing and Son built ''Umona'' in 1910, completing her that October. She had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of that heated three single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . These fed steam at 180 lbf/in2 to a three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine built by George Clark Ltd of Sunderland. The engine was rated at 497 NHP and drove a single screw, giving the ship a speed of only .〔 Despite carrying passengers on a regular route, ''Umona'' was no faster than many cargo ships of her period. She was built for economy, not speed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Umona」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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