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RANCHI (1925)
Service dates: 1925-1953
Official number: 148130
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 29.07.1925
- Delivered as Ranchi for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £919,080.
- 08.1930
- Re-measured. Now 16,738 grt, 10,098 nrt.
- 27.08.1939
- Requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as an armed merchant cruiser.
- 16.03.1943
- Returned to her owners to be refitted as a troopship.
- 07.01.1953
- Sold for £200,000 to British Iron and Steel Corporation (Salvage) Ltd, for demolition.