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GREGORY APCAR (1902)

Service dates: 1914-1923

Official number: 98345

Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


Passenger/Cargo Ship.


Career

06.10.1902
Launched.
11.1902
Completed as Gregory Apcar for Apcar Line at a cost of £75,000.
27.02.1912
Sold to British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
15.04.1912
Registration transferred to British India Steam Navigation Company.
02.12.1913
Arrived at Shanghai inbound from Calcutta with damaged sustained by bad weather.
24.06.1914
Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
10.1914
Part of the Bombay-Marseilles convoy with Indian troops.
1917/1919
Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme, but was largely left to her designed trade.
09.07.1923
Sold for £9,500 to S A Ansaldo and broken up at Genoa.


Ship technical details (PDF)