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PALAMCOTTA (1945)
Service dates: 1945-1961
Official number: 180768
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 19.09.1945
- Launched.
- 08.11.1945
- Delivered as Palamcotta for the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 11.1945/
- Requisitioned for the Liner Division.
- 03.1950
- Converted to oil fuel.
- 07.09.1960
- When leaving the Tyne for Hull and Calcutta, she collided with the Desdemona and had to return for repairs.
- 05.08.1961
- Sold for £92,500 to the Marine Industry Corporation of Hong Kong, and renamed Doria.
- 1962
- Sold to International Union Lines, registered at Monrovia, but controlled from Taiwan.
- 1962
- Sold to the Taiwan Ming Sung Company, Keelung, and renamed New Hweisung.
- 1968
- Sold for scrapping to the Chung Hwa Material Company Ltd.
- 25.10.1968
- Demolition commenced at Keelung.