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TORILLA (1945)
Service dates: 1949-1950
Official number: 180457
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Coaster.
Career
- 08.1945
- Launched.
- 11.1945
- Delivered as Empire Seaport for the Ministry of War Transport.
- 1946
- Sold to Middle East Coastal Services Ltd, registered at Famagusta, and renamed Eladem.
- 26.07.1949
- Acquired by the British India Steam Navigation Company for their East African coastal trade. She was renamed Torilla.
- 28.03.1950
- The trade proved not to be lucrative and she was sold to the Indian General Navigation & Railway Co.
- 1961
- Sold to the Pakistan River Steamers Ltd, Chittagong.
- 1971
- Company restyled Bangladesh River Steamers Ltd.
- 1972
- Company was nationalised.
- 1975
- The operation became the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation and the vessel was renamed C5-216.
- 1976
- Broken up at Chittagong.