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LIGHTNING (1891)
Service dates: 1914-1922
Official number: 98336
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 27.01.1891
- Launched.
- 03.1891
- Completed as Lightning for Apcar Line at a cost of £60,000.
- 03.11.1891
- Grounded on a voyage from Calcutta to Hong Kong. She arrived in Hong Kong with damage.
- 08.07.1898
- Grounded in the River as she was arriving into Calcutta from her voyage from Hong Kong.
- 30.11.1899
- Collided with Wanaka and suffered damage at Ninan.
- 27.02.1912
- Purchased by British India Steam Navigation Company from the Apcar Line.
- 15.04.1912
- Registration transferred from Apcar Line to British India Steam Navigation Company, however the Apcar name was retained for the trade and the ships engaged in it were still referred to as being in the Apcar service well into the 1960s.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- n.d.
- Transferred to the Madras/Straits service.
- 09.1915/05.1917
- Transferred to the Colombo/Tuticorin service.
- 05.1917
- Retained under the Liner Requisition Scheme, being transferred on the Persian Gulf run.
- 1919
- Went ashore at Kuwait but was towed off by a tug with minimal damage.
- 02.06.1922
- Sold for £7,500 to Yamamoto Shigerzo of Osaka and was broken up at Kobe.