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DUNERA (1891)
Service dates: 1914-1922
Official number: 98623
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 12.03.1891
- Launched.
- 20.05.1891
- Completed as Dunera for British India Associated Steamers Ltd. Her name comes from a village in the Gurdaspur district of the Punjab.
- 30.05.1892
- Transferred to British India Steam Navigation Company from British India Associated Steamers Ltd.
- 1896
- Taken up on charter to the Admiralty’s Transport Department (then in charge of trooping service) for seasonal trooping to India. While she was not trooping, BI used her for regular service.
- 11.1899
- First voyage from Malta to Durban during the Boer War, followed by six additional voyages all from Southampton to Cape Town, before the end of the conflict.
- 04.09.1901
- In a collision with Somerhill at St Vincent with some damage.
- 05.1906
- Made a roundtrip voyage with migrants on the Torres Strait route to Queensland.
- 1909
- Converted to a cargo ship.
- n.d.
- Transferred to Calcutta/Rangoon/Straits service.
- 23.07.1913
- Sustained damage after striking the quay wall at Rangoon.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1914
- Picked up for service during World War I. She was one of the many British India Steam Navigation Company ships in the third trooping convoy to leave Bombay.
- 1915
- Released from trooping services.
- Mid-1917/1919
- Under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 14.07.1922
- Sold to Chinese shipbreakers for demolition at Shanghai for £10,000.