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CHENAB (1911)
Service dates: 1917-1930
Official number: 132589
Shipping lines: JAMES NOURSE LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 10.06.1911
- Launched.
- 08.1911
- Completed as Chenab for James Nourse Ltd at a cost of £52,000.
- 24.08.1913
- Grounded off Stoney Point, South Africa en route from Demerara to Calcutta. Repairs at Durban took two months.
- 30.09.1914/12.1914
- Requisitioned as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
- 01.03.1916/17.04.1916
- Requisitioned to carry sugar.
- 19.12.1916/10.02.1917
- Requisitioned to carry wheat.
- 11.02.1917/25.05.1919
- Requisitioned as an Expeditionary Force transport.
- 20.11.1917
- Takeover of James Nourse Ltd by P&O agreed.
- 1930
- Sold for £14,000 to the Khedivial Mail Steamship & Graving Dock Co Ltd, Alexandria. Converted into a passenger vessel.
- 1931
- Sold to Cie de Nay Libano-Syrienne, Beyrouth, under the French flag, and renamed Ville de Beyrouth.
- 1936
- Sold to Soc Orientale de Nay, Beyrouth (Khedivial Mail Steamship & Graving Dock Co Ltd, managers).
- 1939
- Sold to the Pharaonic Mail Line S A E, Alexandria and renamed Al Rawdah.
- 1940
- Requisitioned by the Ministry of Shipping (British India SNCo Ltd, managers).
- 07.1940/26.03.1946
- During this time, she serviced as a Military Store Ship, a Detention Ship and as a Royal Navy Accommodation Ship.
- 1946
- Returned to her owners, now known as the Khedivial Mail Line S A E.
- 05.1953
- Scrapped at Rosyth by Metal Industries Ltd.