I have published my latest monograph on “Wanted on Voyage:
https://wantedonthevoyage.blogspot.c...mv-dumana.html
This details two bona fide but overlooked pioneers in the development of the Motor Ship: the two first ever motor-driven passenger liners built as such. Developments of the largest and arguably most successful class of British passenger-cargo ships ever… the “M Class”… they served on both BI’s “Home Lines” to/from India and had very eventful war careers, the bombing of DOMALA in the English Channel was the first aerial attack on a merchantman at sea.
Not great successes mechanically (and it not being until the “C” class of 1942 onwards that BI returned to diesels for their commercial ships), DOMALA and DUMANA were still important vessels and a century later deserving of appreciation.
Peter Kohler