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CHYEBASSA (1942)
Service dates: 1914-1938
Official number: 168363
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 23.10.1942
- Launched.
- 24.12.1942
- Completed as Chyebassa for the British India Steam Navigation Company. She had three sister ships, Canara, Chanda and Chupra.
- 12.1942/04.1946
- Requisitioned for the Liner Division.
- 14.02.1948
- Sire broke out in the insulation.
- 04.1948
- Altered to carry refrigerated cargo in Melbourne, Australia.
- 12.07.1961
- Collided with the German vessel Widar off the Hook of Holland.
- 13.06.1969
- Sold for scrapping by Leung Yau Shipbreaking Co, Hong Kong.