Masters: 1918-20 W Rowlands: 1942 Arthur Lloyd Beckett.
On a voyage from Diego Suarez in Madagascar for Capetown, Trinidad & Baltimore with a cargo of chrome ore & a crew of 74 Kioto was torpedoed by German submarine (U-514 Hans-Jurgen Auffermann) off Tobago in 11.05N/60.46W on 15 September 1942. She went aground a burned out hulk. 21 lives lost.
Lives lost September 1942: Abbas, trimmer, 22, India; Abdoolla Sheikh Hossein, fireman, 32, Ratnagari, India; Abdullah, general servant, 29, India; Abu Bala, seaman, 40, India; Bashir Ullah, oiler, 37, India; Buck, Ernest Neville, able seaman, 25, Liverpool; Budwan, seaman, 33, India; Coultas, James Frederick, chief steward, 29, Hull; Faqir, tindal, 40, India; Gul Rasil, trimmer, India; Husain Mian, trimmer, 22, India; Jaindu Din, fireman, 45, India; Jainu din, trimmer, 20, India; Martin, Kenneth Stanley James, quartermaster, 30, Chelsea, London; Muhammad Abdullah, cassab, 38, India; Nur Muhammad, general servant, 28, India; Sheikh Yusuf, greaser, 35, India; Taliman, trimmer, 25, India; Zardad Khan, fireman, 45, India.
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