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EURYALUS (1898)
Service dates: 1914-1923
Official number: 101720
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 16.06.1898
- Launched.
- 08.1898
- Completed as Euryalus for Archibald Currie & Co Pty of Melbourne at a cost of £47,500.
- 13.01.1900
- During the Boer War she was fitted out at Melbourne as a South African trooper and sailed from that port with a contingent of Victorian troops.
- 1908
- Fitted with a Linde ammonia machine and two insulated chambers to cater for refrigerated cargo.
- 12.03.1911
- Damaged after striking the pier at Port Swettenham.
- 26.02.1913
- Euryalus was taken over by British India Steam Navigation Company.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of by British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 07.1914
- Collided with the by British India Steam Navigation Company ship Orissa off Achipur and had to put back to Calcutta for dry-docking after discharging her cargo.
- 1917
- Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 22.12.1923
- Sold for £6,500 to Italian shipbreakers and subsequently broken up at Genoa.