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CHILKA (1910)
Service dates: 1914-1917
Official number: 129520
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 28.03.1910
- Launched.
- 04.10.1910
- Delivered as Chilka for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £75,500. She was the sister of Coconada.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1914
- Taken up as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
- 10.1914
- Participated in the great BI convoy from Bombay to Marseilles.
- 12.1914
- Moved into Australian transport service for eight months.
- 09.1915
- Spent the autumn trooping in the Middle East.
- 11.1915
- Fouled one of her propellers on the boom at Alexandria.
- 09.1916
- Once again taken up as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
- 05.1917
- Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 01.07.1917
- Returning to her original trade, she had a fire in her No.3 and No.4 holds while at anchor off Baruva, near Gopalpur on her way from Madras to Rangoon. She had 15 cabin passengers and 1,600 deck passengers on board. To save their lives, the Master decided to beach Chilka but in the confusion 81 of the passengers and cargo coolies were lost, mainly by jumping overboard and drowning. The fire damaged the ship enough that she had to be abandoned as a total loss.
- 03.1920
- The remainder of the ship was sold for Rs 11,300 for demolition.