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WARORA (1918)

Service dates: 1919-1939

Official number: 142348

Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


Collier.


Career

01.12.1917
Launched.
03.1918
Completed as War Cuirass for the Shipping Controller (Burnett & Co, Newcastle, managers).
1918
Requisitioned to carry coal for the remainder of the War.
02.1919
Served as an Expeditionary Force transport.
09.09.1919
Purchased by the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd for £144,000 and renamed Warora.
10.1938
Laid up at Falmouth.
30.01.1939
Sold to Italian shipbreakers for £4,250 and broken up at Genoa.


Ship technical details (PDF)