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ITOLA (1940)
Service dates: 1940-1958
Official number: 167619
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 21.05.1940
- Launched.
- 27.07.1940
- Completed as Itola for the British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £204,200.
- 08.1940
- Requisitioned for the Liner Division.
- 02.1942/04.1946
- Served as a Mechanical Transport Ship.
- 1944
- Had an explosion in incendiary bombs she was discharging but the outbreak was contained by the crew using the ship’s own fire fighting gear.
- 01.1945
- Took part in the Kyaukpyu landings as a vehicle transport.
- 05.1949
- Converted to oil fuel.
- 09.07.1958
- Sold for £150,000 to Karachi Steam Navigation Company and renamed Pakistan Promoter.
- 05.1967
- Broken up in Pakistan by the Hardware Manufacturing Corporation.