Troopship torpedoed in Indian Ocean

12th February 1944: One of Britain's worst maritime disasters - as the Khedive Ismail is sunk with 1,296 people lost including 77 women

SS Khedive Ismail, here pictured under her previous name of Aconcagua. Her sinking by the Japanese submarine I 27 on 12 February 1944 was the third largest disaster involving a British troopship in World War II.