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GOALPARA (1919)
Service dates: 1919-1941
Official number: 141914
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 27.06.1919
- Launched.
- 08.08.1919
- Completed as Goalpara for the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 03.1940
- Came under the Liner Division.
- 02.1941
- Became a Military Store Ship.
- 15.04.1941
- While supplying the Greek campaign, she was bombed in Eleusis Bay, Piraeus and had to be run ashore and abandoned, fortunately without loss of life. The Germans apparently salvaged her at some stage, as the wreck was found in Scaramanga at the end of the war and demolished soon after.