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PADANA (1945)
Service dates: 1945-1961
Official number: 180578
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 13.04.1945
- Launched.
- 06.07.1945
- Delivered as Padana for the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd at a cost of £247,800.
- 07.1945/03.1946
- Requisitioned for the Liner Division.
- 1951
- Converted to oil fuel.
- 02.05.1961
- Sold for £97,500 to Surrendra Overseas Ltd, Bombay, and renamed Apj Rita.
- 1967
- Renamed Samudra Apj Rita without a change in ownership.
- 07.1970
- Sold for demolition at Bombay to Sirdar Iron & Steel Mills.
- 24.09.1970
- Demolition commenced.