SS Maloja (1910)

SS Maloja was an M-class passenger steamship of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, built by Harland and Wolff and completed in 1911 for the regular route between Great Britain and India. She had twin screws driven by twin quadruple expansion engines rated at 1,164 nominal horsepower, which gave her 19 knots, and capacity for 670 passengers plus a quantity of cargo. On 26 February 1916 she sailed from Tilbury for Bombay with 122 passengers, mixed military, government and civilian, and a general cargo. In the English Channel off Dover she was sunk by a mine with the loss of 155 lives, going down 24 minutes after the explosion. Her wreck lay in 80 to 100 feet of water and was a navigation hazard, so in 1964 it was blown up.