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NARDANA (1919)
Service dates: 1919-1941
Official number: 141920
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 12.08.1919
- Launched.
- 23.09.1919
- Completed as Nardana for the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 20.10.1919
- Delivered.
- 03.09.1920
- Arrived at Antwerp with weather damage on a voyage from Calcutta.
- 1929
- She was given a major overhaul in which two low pressure turbines were installed, each double-reduction geared through a hydraulic coupling to the same shaft as one of the reciprocating engines.
- 1929
- Following the completion of her overhaul, she was fitted out as a Company cadet ship carrying 39 cadets which she took off the Woodara after that ship was sold in August 1929.
- 04.1938
- Arrived at Port Said on her outward voyage to Brisbane with a leak in No.4 starboard bilge well.
- 04.1940
- Came under the Liner Division.
- 08.03.1941
- En route from Bombay and Cape Town to London in convoy SL 67, she was torpedoed by U124 965km (600 miles) north-east of the Cape Verde Islands (20°51’N-20°32’W). The ship sank quickly with the loss of nineteen of her crew but the surviving 106 crew and two gunners were picked up from the boats by a destroyer and landed at Gibraltar. The attack sank five ships: Nardana, Harmodius, Hindpool, Tielbank and Lahore.