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LINDULA (1888)
Service dates: 1914
Official number: 95083
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 11.06.1888
- Launched. She was originally laid down as Linga.
- 24.08.1888
- Left the yard as Lindula for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £56,000.
- 1888
- Maiden voyage to Queensland, but that was the end of her connection with that run.
- 01.1892
- Fouled a wreck in the Hooghly.
- 05.1898
- Broke her propeller shaft in the Straits of Malacca, and although repaired, it broke again in the Bay of Bengal. She was drifting helplessly until the Mecca came into sight, passed a hawser and took her in tow for Rangoon.
- 24.05.1898
- The continuous yawing of the Lindula broke the rope, and in coming alongside to reconnect, the Commander of the Mecca misjudged his distance and the Lindula rammed her rescuer amidships. The Mecca sank soon after with the loss of 52 of her complement. Lindula saved the rest of the crew, temporarily repaired the shaft and managed to limp into Rangoon.
- 1899/1900
- Made three trips from Bombay and Calcutta to Durban and Cape Town with troops.
- 1905
- Dragged her anchors and grounded at Akyab.
- 11.1906
- Collided with the Muttra at Calcutta.
- 08.1911
- Grounded at Linga.
- 04.10.1912
- Collided with a dock wall at Bombay.
- 23.11.1913
- Collision with the Strick Line tender Raithwaite Hall at Basra which resulted in serious damage to the tender.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 26.06.1914
- Sold to shipbreakers at Bombay for £4,250, just prior to the outbreak of World War I.