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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)