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IKAUNA (1941)
Service dates: 1941-1958
Official number: 168072
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 30.11.1940
- Launched.
- 28.02.1941
- Completed as Ikauna for the British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £208,000.
- 1941
- Fitted out for use as a petrol carrier.
- 01.1942/04.1946
- Served as a Mechanical Transport Ship.
- 01.1945
- Acted as an army vehicle transport at the Kyaukpyu landing.
- 01.1950
- Converted to oil fuel. Once she changed her fuel, she carried less crew. Now 68 total (11 officers, 57 ratings).
- 18.10.1958
- Sold to the Pakistan Steam Navigation Company for £150,000.
- 1959
- Renamed Fatehabad.
- 1965
- Owners restyled the East Bengal Steamship Company, Chittagong.
- 05.1968
- Broken up at Gadani Beach, Pakistan by Sind Steel Corporation.