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ORMARA (1914)
Service dates: 1914-1938
Official number: 136305
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 11.05.1914
- Launched. She was originally designed for F C Strick & Co but her contract was taken over by British India in October 1913.
- 07.07.1914
- Delivered as Ormara for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £72,400.
- 10.1914/12.1914
- Served as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
- Mid 1917
- Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 26.10.1938
- Sold for £8,300 to Van Heyghen Freres and broken up at Ghent.