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COLABA (1906)
Service dates: 1914-1925
Official number: 121287
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 16.11.1905
- Launched.
- 17.01.1906
- Delivered as Colaba for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £72,600. She was the second of the new C-class ships to be delivered with her sisters being Canara, Chanda, Chupra, Culna and Chyebassa.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1917/1919
- Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 1917
- During a voyage from London to India and carrying 300 tons of high explosives, she was placed in the middle of her convoy for safety reasons on the Gibraltar to Port Said leg. For some reason, she was moved after the first night to an outside column. Three days later, the vessel that took Colaba’s original position was torpedoed and sunk, while none of the other vessels in the convoy were harmed. Speculation suggests that some information had been leaked at Gibraltar but the wrong ship was torpedoed although this seems improbable.
- 12.11.1925
- Sold for £23,000 to the Soc Cantieri Olivo of Genoa and renamed Marigola.
- 1927
- Sold to Ing G B Bibolini of Genoa without a change of name.
- 22.09.1941
- Damaged by British air attack.
- 23.10.1941
- While she was docked in her damaged state at Kuriat Island, she was torpedoed by HMS Urge.
- 01.11.1941
- Hit by a torpedo and gunfire from HMS Utmost and the Colaba was officially wrecked.
- n.d.
- Salvaged and broken up by the French authorities.