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KATORIA (1889)
Service dates: 1914-1923
Official number: 97579
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 24.10.1889
- Launched.
- 19.11.1889
- Delivered as Katoria for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £32,700.
- 1896/1902
- Transferred to the Tuticorin/Colombo route.
- 1904/1905
- Transferred to the Turicorin/Colombo route once again.
- 1905
- Moved to Bombay on the Persian Gulf fast mail service.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1917
- Served as a patrol vessel in the Indian Ocean.
- 10.11.1918
- Left Salonika with troops to accept the surrender of the Turkish forces at Gallipoli on 11th November. (The first World War ended at 1100hrs that day).
- 12.06.1919
- Damaged in a collision with the Russian steamer Belorossia at Constantinople.
- 01.04.1923
- Sold to Bombay shipbreakers for Rs 30,000.