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EKMA (1911)
Service dates: 1914-1948
Official number: 132999
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 21.10.1911
- Launched.
- 14.12.1911
- Ran trials and delivered as Ekma for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £100,900. She was the last ship of the E-class to be delivered with the other ships named Ellenga, Edavana, Elephanta, Egra, Ellora and Erinpura.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 14.08.1914
- Taken up as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
- 09.1914
- Served as a member of the convoy from Karachi.
- 16.01.1915
- Damaged in a collision in Bombay.
- 12.1919
- Released from Government service.
- 22.01.1920
- Grounded at Nurpur Flat whilst sailing from Rangoon to Calcutta.
- 06.06.1921
- Involved in a collision with British India Steam Navigation Company’s Angora, escaping with little damage.
- 10.1926
- Mooring cable parted whilst in Rangoon Harbour sending her out into the river with no steam for her engines, steering gear nor whistle. She hit the wharf just enough to change her course and avoid collision with her sister Ellenga and send her out into the river again, where her last anchor brought her to a stop despite the rapid current.
- 03.1940
- Requisitioned for the Liner Division service.
- 07.1942
- Returned troops to Australia.
- 1943
- Allotted to the second Malayan Campaign.
- 12.1946
- Returned to commercial service.
- 01.05.1948
- Sold for Rs 240,000 to Hassanally Shipbreakers of Bombay.
- 1948
- Broken up at Bombay by Esmailji Abdulhussein & Co.