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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.