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GAMBHIRA (1939)
Service dates: 1948-1955
Official number: 167316
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 19.06.1939
- Launched.
- 16.08.1939
- Completed as Cefn-Y-Bryn for Cook Shipping Co Ltd (Ambrose, Davies & Matthews, London, managers).
- 12.1939
- Requisitioned for the Ship Management Division.
- 1947
- Management transferred to Jersey United Shipping Co Ltd.
- 16.02.1948
- Sold to British India Steam Navigation Company for £250,000 and renamed Gambhira.
- 25.02.1955
- Sold to China Shipping Co Ltd (John Manners & Co, Hong Kong, managers) and renamed Hongkong Breeze. The sale price of £240,000 was reduced by £40,000 when she failed to reach her contract speed.
- 11.1956
- Sold to Dai Ichi KKK, Kobe, and renamed her Hongkong Maru. She was given a major refit including re-engining.
- 1966
- Sold to Fujita Kaiji Kogyo KK, Osaka.
- 03.1971
- Sold to Kuk Deng Steel Co, Pusan, for breaking up.