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SANTHIA (1950)
Service dates: 1950-1966
Official number: 184299
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 01.06.1950
- Launched Mrs J B Currie, daughter-in-law of the Company Chairman.
- 03.11.1950
- Completed as Santhia for the British India Steam Navigation Company. She was the last of three sisters to be delivered along with Sangola and Sirdhana.
- 1962
- Withdrawn from the Far East service and transferred to the Bombay/ Gulf service.
- 1963
- Passenger accommodation now 141 one-class.
- 08.1963
- On a voyage from Basrah to Bombay, she struck a rock off Harta Bank and sustained rudder damage and grounded. She was towed to Bombay for repairs by the salvage ship Svitzer.
- 06.12.1966
- Sold to the Shipping Corporation of India and renamed State of Haryana for their Bombay/East Africa service.
- 1974
- Transferred to the Andaman Islands service and temporarily renamed Nancowry.
- 11.1976
- Suffered a collapse of her auxiliary boilers.
- 02.01.1977
- Sold to Zain & Co, Bombay for breaking up once again as the State of Haryana.