IOR/L/E/8/4916

File includes:

• Reports on the sinking in a heavy storm of the Indian ferry steamer ss. Ramdas outside of Bombay Harbour, causing the loss of many passengers and crew on the morning of 17th July 1947
• Proceedings and a report of a formal investigation into the circumstances relating to the stranding and total loss of the ss. Mount Douglas Park on 20th August 1946
• Proceedings of the preliminary enquiry held at Karachi in October 1946 in connection with the fracture of the oil fuel pipe of the ss. Palikonda
• Copy of a letter from the Government of India with enclosures regarding the grounding of the ss. Jehangir in Shah-Ali-Reef, Strait of Jubal, on 25th December 1945
• Proceedings and report of the Special Court of Enquiry held to enquire into the circumstances attending the stranding and catching of fire of the ss.Takliwa on 14th October 1945
• Proceedings and a report of a formal investigation held to enquire into the circumstances attending the fire on board the ss. E Sang on 2nd April 1945
• Copy of a statement made at Bombay on 20th April 1945 by Captain J D Winter, Master of ss. Empire Coral, in connection with a fire that broke in the stokehold of the vessel
• Proceedings and report of a formal investigation held to enquire into the circumstances attending the collision between the ss. Neverita and ss. Daphnella on 2nd March 1945 ‘at or near’ South of Golalpur in the Bay of Bengal
• Proceedings of a Special Court of Enquiry for the purpose of making an investigation into the circumstances attending the sinking of the steamer Rudra in the Kacha river on 29th January 1944
• Report on an investigation into the cause of fire in the boiler room of the ss. Empire Coral which took place at sea on 4th April 1945
• Proceedings of a Special Court of Enquiry for the purpose of making an investigation into the circumstances attending the stranding of ss. Kutubtari on the Juldia Training Wall, Chittagong Port, on 10th August 1944
• Proceedings of a Special Court of Enquiry for the purpose of making an investigation into the circumstances attending the sinking of a dinghy as a result of a collision with the Calcutta Port Tug Sturdy in the Hooghly on 3rd August 1943
• Copy of (1) proceedings and report of a formal investigation held to enquire into an outbreak of fire on the transport ship Santhia and capsizing of the vessel on 25th November 1943 at Garden Reach Jetties, Calcutta, causing an obstruction and (2) additional papers on the question of salvaging the wreck of the Santhia
• Report of an enquiry into the causes of a fire on board the ss. Baron Belhaven on 17th April 1944
• Proceedings of the preliminary enquiry regarding damage caused by enemy action to the ss. Asphalion and subsequent damage to port tugs on 11th February 1944
• Proceedings of the Preliminary Inquiry regarding the sinking of the vessel mv. Empire Stanley, which occurred on 17th August 1943
• Statements in connection with the loss of ss. Khedive Ismail as a result of enemy action on 12th February 1944
• Government of India letter dated 4th May 1944 on damage to the steel tanker mv. Tornus due to enemy action
• Record of a preliminary enquiry into the Circumstances attending the collapse of the port high furnace in the forward boiler of the ss. Prome, which occurred on 12th June 1943