SS Camorta

SS "Camorta" was a steamship owned by the British India Steam Navigation Company which sunk in the Irrawaddy Delta on 6 May 1902 with the loss of all 655 passengers and 82 crew. She was en route from Madras, India, to Rangoon, Burma, across the Bay of Bengal, when she was caught in a cyclone. All of her passengers and 73 of her crew were Indians. She was reported missing when she failed to arrive at Rangoon on 13 May and the wreck was discovered in fifteen fathoms on 4 June; her masts still stood six feet above the water. The disaster was the fourth worst loss of life in the wreck of a British-registered civilian vessel (she was registered in Glasgow) in history after the RMS "Titanic", RMS "Lusitania" and RMS "Empress of Ireland". She was built in 1881.

References

*"Shipping Disasters", "The Times", 15 May 1902
*"Shipping Disaster", "The Times", 5 June 1902

External links

* [http://www.biship.com/logentries7.htm Photograph of the "Camorta"]