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ISLANDA (1900)
Service dates: 1914-1917
Official number: 111246
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 07.10.1899
- Launched.
- 30.03.1900
- Delivered as Islanda for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £77,847. She was part of the I-class ships to be delivered along with her sisters Itaura, Itinda, Itola, Ismaila, Ikhona and Itria.
- 1900
- Served on a charter as a transport for the Boxer Rebellion.
- 27.10.1904
- During a voyage from Brisbane to Bombay, she was forced to put back with engine damage.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1914
- One of the seven British India ships which made up the Karachi section of the third major troop convoy to leave India.
- 1914/1917
- Employed as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport
- 09.1917
- Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 10.12.1917
- She was driven ashore in a gale at Marsa Scirocco, Malta, when inward bound from Syracuse and quickly broke up with no loss of life.