SS Yoma
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| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Yoma |
| Namesake | Yoma, western Burma |
| Owner |
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| Operator | P Henderson & Co |
| Port of registry | Glasgow |
| Route | Glasgow – Suez Canal – Rangoon |
| Builder | W Denny & Bros, Dumbarton |
| Cost | £227,891 |
| Yard number | 1206 |
| Launched | 2 August 1928 |
| Completed | 6 October 1928 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | sunk by torpedo, 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | passenger ship |
| Tonnage | 8,195 GRT, 5,057 NRT |
| Length | 460.3 ft (140.3 m) |
| Beam | 61.2 ft (18.7 m) |
| Depth | 31.0 ft (9.4 m) |
| Decks | 2 |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 1 × screw |
| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Capacity | passengers: 146 × 1st class |
| Crew |
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| Sensors & processing systems |
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| Armament | DEMS |
SS Yoma was a British passenger liner that became a troop ship in the Second World War. She was built in Scotland in 1928, and from then until 1940 ran a regular route between Glasgow in Scotland and Rangoon in Burma via the Suez Canal. She became a troop ship in 1941, and was sunk with great loss of life in the Mediterranean in 1943.
Yoma was run by the Henderson Line of Glasgow. She was managed by P Henderson & Company, and at first owned jointly by two other P Henderson companies: British and Burmese Steam Navigation Company Ltd and Burmah Steam Ship Company Ltd. From 1934, the British and Burmese SN Co Ltd was her sole owner.
Yoma was one of a family of similar liners that William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton built for Henderson Line. The others were Amarapoora, Pegu, Kemmendine, and Sagaing – completed in 1920, '21, '24 and '25 respectively. Each was about 8,000 GRT, and carried cargo as well as passengers. Yoma was the last of the series to be built, and also the largest.