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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.