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PADUA (1912)

Service dates: 1920-1933

Official number: 144312

Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

12.11.1912
Launched.
12.1912
Completed as Luneburg for Deutsche-Australische Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft, Germany.
29.08.1914
Took refuge at Macassar on the outbreak of war.
24.08.1919
Surrendered to Great Britain as a prize and managed for The Shipping Controller by British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd, London.
03.11.1920
Purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for £176,034 and renamed Padua.
03.1933
Sold for £10,500 to Goshi Kaisha Fukushima Denkichi Shosen, Japan for demolition.
29.05.1933
Delivered at Osaka.


Ship technical details (PDF)