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UGANDA (1952)
Service dates: 1952-1986
Official number: 184658
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.; P&O PASSENGER DIVISION; P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; P&O LINES
Ship type:
Passenger Liner; Educational Cruise Ship.
Career
- 15.01.1952
- Launched by Lady Hall, wife of Sir John Hathorn Hall, retired Governor of Uganda
- 16.07.1952
- Ran trials and delivered as Uganda to the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd
- 02.08.1952
- Maiden voyage London/Beira
- 26.11.1952
- Outward bound on her second voyage touched ground with her port propeller at Dar-es-Salaam and was forced to dry-dock at Diego Suarez
- 05.04.1967
- Arrived at Hamburg to be converted by Howaldtswerke Hamburg AG into an educational cruise ship at a cost of £2,800,000
- 15.02.1968
- Redelivered after refit
- 27.02.1968
- Sailed from Southampton on her first voyage in her new role
- 21.10.1969
- While off Cape Trafalgar, several shells were fired from Spanish shore batteries
- 01.10.1971
- Management and operation transferred to P&O Passenger Division
- 05.12.1972
- Ownership transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
- 01.1975
- Uganda became P&O’s only remaining educational cruise ship
- 29.08.1976
- Grounded briefly off Dundee
- 10.04.1982
- Requisitioned for service with the Falklands Task Force
- 13.04.1982
- Converted for use as a hospital ship
- 19.04.1982
- Sailed for the South Atlantic
- 12.05.1982
- Uganda served as a hospital ship treating casualties
- 13.07.1982
- Converted to a troopship
- 09.08.1982
- Returned to Southampton carrying troops
- 25.09.1982
- Returned to commercial service
- 11.1982
- Chartered as a store ship to operate between Ascension and the Falklands
- 14.01.1983
- Sailed for the Falklands
- 11.1983/12.1983
- Refitted at Falmouth
- 25.04.1985
- Arrived at Falmouth at the end of her charter
- 04.05.1985
- Laid up in the River Fal
- 11.02.1986
- Management transferred to P&O Lines Ltd
- 29.04.1986
- Sold to Triton Shipping Co, St. Vincent, and renamed Triton
- 20.05.1986
- Sailed from the River Fal
- 15.07.1986
- Arrived at Kaohsiung for demolition
- 22.08.1986
- Driven aground by typhoon Wayne