Tilāwa (Arabic: تِلاوة) is the recitation of the Qur'an and reflection on it. The root of the word, al-tilawa, has appeared only once in the Qur'an, but its cognates appear more than 50 times. Many hadiths from Prophet Muhammad (s) and the Imams …

SS Tilawa was an ocean liner of the British India Steam Navigation Company launched in 1924. She was the only passenger liner sunk during World War 2, targeted by a submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Indian Ocean on 23 November 1942, with the loss of 280 lives.

The Tilawa (Arabic: تِلَاوَة) is a recitation of the successive verses of the Qur'ān in a standardized and proven manner according to the rules of the ten recitations. [1][2]

Tilawa, named after the Burmese port, was a British India Steam Navigation (later part of P&O) 10,006-ton passenger/cargo liner. She was built by Hawthorn, Leslie at Hebburn, on Tyneside in 1924 and had a 12-knot service speed. She could accommodate 3,957 deck, 62 first-class, and 74 second-class passengers with a crew of 220.

In 2017 Argentum Exploration Ltd. arranged a visit of the S.S. TILAWA wreck site. In 1942, the Bombay Mint sold the 2,391 silver bars to the Union of South Africa for the purpose of coinage. According to some websites, you can now secure a full-size bar struck in 1128.8 ounces of highly pure 99.9% fine silver.

On November 20th 1942 at 17:00, S.S. Tilawa set sail for the continent of Africa. She departed from Ballard Pier, Mumbai with 222 crew members, 732 passengers, and 4 gunners. There were 9 lifeboats, over 6,000 tons of cargo, including 60 tons of silver bullion.

In a dramatic event that would end the lives of 280 passengers and alter the lives of many survivors, the SS Tilawa mysteriously met its demise at the hands of a Japanese submarine.

The Tilawa was a British India Steam Navigation Company passenger ship, commissioned in 1924, that transported passengers, mail and cargo between various ports in India and East Africa . On November 23, 1942, she was sunk by a Japanese submarine in …

The S.S. Tilawa, a liner often called the “Indian Titanic,” set sail during World War II, carrying silver bullion from Bombay to Durban, South Africa. Tragically, it was sunk by Japanese torpedoes in the Indian Ocean in November 1942.

On the 23rd November in 1942, the SS Tilawa, transporting mostly Indian nationals en route to Mombasa, Maputo and Durban was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine near the Seychelles Islands. “I was one of the passengers on the board the Tilawa that night,” reads The Memoirs of Chunilal Navsaria (Survivor of The SS Tilawa).