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NEVASA (1913)
Service dates: 1914-1948
Official number: 133102
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship; Troopship.
Career
- 26.12.1912
- Launched.
- 05.03.1913
- Delivered as Nevasa for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £152,900.
- 22.03.1913
- Maiden voyage to Calcutta.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 08.1914
- Taken up as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport carrying Territorials to India to relieve the Regular garrison.
- 01.1915
- Taken up as an Expeditionary Force Hospital Ship with 660 beds.
- Mid-1916
- Most of her Hospital Ship service was from India to Basra, Suez and East Africa.
- 03.1918
- Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 06.07.1918
- Attacked by U151 while the latter was on the surface.
- 02.10.1918
- In contact with a submarine, U155, but able to escape.
- 1920
- Returned to company service between London and Bombay and Karachi.
- 03.05.1922
- Collided with the Brocklebank liner Maimyo in the Elbe.
- 1925
- Converted for permanent trooping by R&H Green & Silley Weir.
- 06.04.1927
- Collided with the Ellerman liner City of Marseilles.
- 04.1927
- Involved in rushing troops out from England to Shanghai.
- 1928
- Abandoned the Company’s colour scheme for the white hull.
- 1935/1937
- Replaced her sister Neuralia on the school cruise service.
- 1937
- Participated in the Coronation Naval Review.
- 1941/1945
- On various trooping duties throughout the Second World War.
- 01.1948
- Released from her wartime duty.
- 12.03.1948
- Sold for £26,000 to British Iron & Steel Corporation.
- 04.1948
- Demolition commenced by P & W MacLellan Ltd.