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VARELA (1914)

Service dates: 1914-1951

Official number: 136296

Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


Passenger/Cargo Ship.


Career

27.03.1914
Launched.
28.05.1914
Delivered as Varela for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £119,200.
24.06.1914
Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
02.08.1914
First British India Steam Navigation Company ship requisitioned by the Government for the war effort.
n.d.
Served as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
Early 1915
Used intermittently as a base hospital at Basra.
10.1915
Converted into an Indian Expeditionary Force hospital ship.
11.1917
Transferred to ambulance transport service.
10.1920
Released back to commercial service.
14.12.1922
Collided with a tug and the Strick Line tender Raithwaite Hall.
07.1927
One of her firemen fell overboard.
09.1938
Requisitioned during the Munich crisis.
1939
Insulated cargo space installed.
1941/1945
Wartime service as Personnel Ship.
1946
Returned to Persian Gulf service.
1947
Transferred to the Calcutta/Madras/Rangoon service.
22.03.1951
Sold for breaking up.
26.04.1951
Demolition carried out.


Ship technical details (PDF)