SS Camorta
Company registration number: 84285
The Camorta was a 1881 put into service passenger ship in the British shipping company British India Steam Navigation Company, which transported passengers, mail and cargo between various ports in British India. On May 6, 1902, the ship in the Baragua Flats came near the mouth of the River Irrawaddy in a cyclone and sank. All 739 people aboard were killed.
History
The 2,119 -ton steamship Camorta originated in 1880 in the Dock Point House Shipyard shipyard A. and J. Inglis on the River Clyde in Glasgow and launched on November 16, 1880 from the stack. On January 25, 1881, was completed. It was powered with compound steam engines. The hull was built of iron.
Their owners were initially A. Gray & ES Dawes from Glasgow, but it was bought after the completion of the British India Steam Navigation Company ( BiSn ). This was a Founded in 1856 under the name of Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company (C & BSN ) British shipping company, which specialized in the postal and passenger traffic of Calcutta in West Bengal to Rangoon in Myanmar. The ship was named after an island in the Nicobar group of islands in the Indian Ocean.
In April 1902, the Camorta ran out in Madras on India's west coast to another crossing by the Bay of Bengal with target Rangoon. On board were 89 crew members and 650 passengers. Up to nine of the crew all persons on board were Indians. The ship should reach on May 5, Rangoon. On 6 May, the Camorta that was already late, the estuary of the River Irrawaddy achieved in the Andaman Sea, as they fell into the Baragua Flats in a cyclone and sank into this had. None of the 739 people on board survived the disaster.
The Camorta was reported on May 13 as missing. Shortly after the Bay of Bengal two empty lifeboats of the ship were discovered. The wreck itself was found on June 4 in 27 m deep water. The masts sticking up for about 2 m from the water. Since there were no surviving witnesses of the accident, the exact circumstances of the sinking could never be clarified. Because the Camorta was a company registered in the UK and run by a British shipping company ship, is their downfall one of the largest loss of life on a British passenger ship to the Titanic (1912 ) and the Lusitania (1915 ) dar.