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|Ship caption=Port side view of cargo ship MV ''Tulagi'' on 17 March 1940
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|Ship name= MV ''Tulagi''
|Ship owner=[[Burns Philp]]
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|Ship registry=Hong Kong
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|Ship builder=[[Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock]], Kowloon, Hong Kong
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|Ship yard number=804
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|Ship launched=30 March 1939
|Ship completed=July 1939
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|Ship out of service=28 March 1944
|Ship identification=U.K. [[official number]] 172755
|Ship fate=Sunk on 28 March 1944<ref group=note>German reports say sunk on 27 March; Allied accounts say sunk at 0010 on 28 March.</ref>
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The '''MV ''Tulagi''''' was a merchant ship built in 1939 and operated by the [[Burns Philp]] shipping line to carry cargo between the Pacific Islands and Australian ports. With the outbreak of [[World War II]] the Tulagi formed part of the Allied merchant navy fleet supplying the war effort throughout the Pacific and Indian Ocean theatres.

== Design and construction ==

''Tulagi'' was a cargo ship built by [[Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock]] of [[Kowloon]], [[Hong Kong]] (yard no. 804) for shipping line [[Burns Philp]]. She was designed to carry produce from the Pacific to Mexico, a new enterprise for the company. She was launched on 30 March 1939 and was completed that July.<ref name=miramar/><ref name=hkdailypress/>

She measured {{GRT|2281|disp=long}}, {{DWT|2,550|long|disp=long}}, {{convert|254|ft|6|in|m}} long ([[length overall|overall]]), and {{convert|44|ft|2|in|m}} [[beam (nautical)|abeam]]. Her [[draft (hull)|draught]] was {{convert|19|ft|6|in|m}}.<ref name=lloyds/><ref name=jordan/>

She was equipped with two 6-cylinder [[Harland and Wolff]] diesel engines of the [[Burmeister & Wain]] type, built under sublicense by Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock. These two-stroke cycle single acting engines had a combined power output of {{convert|2400|bhp|abbr=on}} and drove twin screw propellers. The ship had a service speed of {{convert|12|knots|km/h}}.<ref name=hkdailypress/><ref name=lloyds/><ref name=jordan/>

== Early career ==

In the early part of the Second World War, the ''Tulagi'' had led a charmed life, surviving an intense Japanese air attack on the 16 February Allied convoy carrying reinforcements and supplies to Kupang (escorted by the heavy cruiser {{USS|Houston|CA-30|6}}, the destroyer {{USS|Peary|DD-226|6}}), and the surprise [[Japanese attack on Darwin]] on 19 February 1942.<ref name="Grose2010">{{cite book|author=Peter Grose|title=Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Cmo-vTH-vQC&pg=PA111|year=2010|publisher=ReadHowYouWant.com|isbn=978-1-4587-5577-3|pages=111–}}</ref>

== Sinking ==

The ''Tulagi''{{'}}s luck ran out in March 1944 while undertaking a voyage from [[Sydney]] to [[Colombo]] in [[Ceylon]], carrying 1800 tons of flour and 380 bags of mail. In command was Captain Leonard Walter "Dusty" Millar, with a crew of 15 Australian officers, 26 Indian seaman, 7 Malay and 5 [[Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve|Royal Australian Navy Reservist]] (RANR) Gunners, making a total complement of 54 personnel.

On 28 March 1944 at 00:10, the ''Tulagi'' was located in the middle of the Indian Ocean, around 300&nbsp;km south east of the [[Chagos Islands]], when she was hit by two [[torpedo]]es fired by the {{GS|U-532}}. This [[U-boat]], under the command of Kapitän [[Ottoheinrich Junker]], had been rendezvousing with two other submarines of the "Monsun" Submarine Group and the German supply ship ''Brake''. The ''Tulagi'' sank in less than a minute, on her starboard side, stern first.

Fifteen men survived the sinking, eleven Australians, three Malays and one Indian. The survivors were divided between four rafts tied together by painters. On 7 April, one of the rafts was cast adrift and on 21 April, one of the three remaining rafts was broken up to make the remaining two rafts more comfortable for the 15 survivors. The survivors on the rafts were:

=== Raft 1 ===

J.R. Ward (Chief Engineer)
D.G. Jacobs (Purser)
R.T. Charles (2nd Officer)
Ali Bin Sariwee (Malay Quartermaster) Note: Ali was from Jahore, Singapore
Amos Helwend (Malay Quartermaster) Note: Amos was from Barbar Island in Indonesia
Kalipan (Malay Quartermaster) Note: Kalipan was from Alor Island in Indonesia
Basu Mian Abdul Bhooya (Indian greaser).

=== Raft 2 ===

E.J. Board (3rd Officer)
G.L. Smedley (4th Engineer)
J.D. Brown (Cadet Officer)
H.R. Boyce (Petty Officer - RANR)
D.K. Johnson (Able Seaman RANR)
H.M. Morton (Able Seaman RANR)
J.F. Murphy (Able Seaman RANR)
C.H. Webber (Able Seaman RANR)

Food rations obtained from the raft supplies for the first 27 days comprised half a biscuit and 12 milk tablets per day per man, plus  two squares of chocolate for the first six days. On 24 April, food rations were reduced to a quarter of a biscuit per day per man, and two days later the last of the rations were consumed, except for a small number of malted milk tablets. On 19 May, the two rafts became separated and drifted apart.

The raft carrying Board, Smedley, Brown and the five RANR personnel was not heard of again, but in the evening of 25 May, the other raft came ashore in Bijoutier Island in the Seychelles Group, 59 days after the Tulagi was sunk.

At the beginning of the drift, the total rations consisted of 45 biscuits, two tins of chocolate and six tins of malted milk tablets per raft. Water was not a problem in the early part of the voyage due to frequent heavy rain. In May however, it became scarce and was reduced at one stage to 3 oz per man per day. Rations were supplemented by an occasional fish caught by the Malays using an improvised spear made from a pair of scissors lashed to a raft stanchion. Fishing lines in the rafts were useless as the hooks had been stolen.  In all 27 fish, along with two birds and one small turtle, were captured in this manner and eaten raw. However, there were long periods with no solid food - up to 10 days at one stage and nine days on another. All three Australian survivors stated that they owed their lives to untiring perseverance and unselfishness of the Malay seamen spearing fish, catching birds and capturing every drop of rain.

The seven survivors were rescued from [[Bijoutier Island]] on 26 May 1944, by Louis Gendron, a plantation supervisor from nearby [[Alphonse Island]].

Estimated distance travelled: 1598&nbsp;nm (approximately 2959&nbsp;km)
Average drift per day: 27.6&nbsp;nm (approximately 51.1&nbsp;km)<ref>National Archives of Australia: B6121, 155A. [http://soda.naa.gov.au/record/398134/4 "Loss of the M.V. Tulagi"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904161507/http://soda.naa.gov.au/record/398134/4 |date=4 September 2014 }}, Department of the Navy, 1944.</ref>

== Notes ==

{{reflist|group=note}}

== References ==

{{reflist|refs=<ref name=miramar>{{cite web |url=http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/show?nameid=179825&shipid=126957 |title=Single Ship Report for "1172755" |last=Haworth |first=Rodger Barrington |website=Miramar Ship Index |access-date=18 August 2014}}</ref><ref name=hkdailypress>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=New Motor Ship Launched at Kowloon Docks |newspaper=Hong Kong Daily Press |location=Hong Kong |date=31 March 1939 }}</ref><ref name=lloyds>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Lloyd's Register of Ships |url=https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/44/44b1079.pdf |location=London |publisher=Lloyd's Register |date=1944 |access-date=17 August 2014}}</ref><ref name=jordan>{{cite book |last=Jordan |first=Roger |title=The World's Merchant Fleets, 1939: The Particulars And Wartime Fates of 6,000 Ships |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhac0fSx-rsC&q=tulagi&pg=PA106 |location=Annapolis |publisher=Naval Institute Press |page=106 |date=2006 |isbn=1-59114-959-2 |access-date=17 August 2014}}</ref>
}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.tulagi.info "Tulagi Raft Drift"]
* [http://www.pacificwrecks.com/ships/mv/tulagi.html "Pacific Wrecks - MV Tulagi"]
* {{cite web |url=http://www.military.com/HomePage/TitleHistories/1,10982,713069%7C766997,00.html?historyList= |title=History: MV Tulagi |last1=Renken |first1=Rodney |website=Military.com |publisher=Military Advantage |access-date=17 August 2014}}
* {{cite book|author=Tony Bridgland|title=Waves of Hate: Naval Atrocities of the Second World War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qP6RAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA217|date=15 March 2001|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-0-85052-822-0|pages=217–}}

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