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TANDA (1954)
Service dates: 1954-1972
Official number: 186150
Shipping lines: EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY LTD.; BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 21.12.1953
- Launched by Mrs L P S Bourne, wife of the Chairman of Eastern & Australian Steam Ship Company Ltd.
- 14.12.1954
- Delivered as Arafura for Eastern & Australian Steam Ship Company Ltd, London. She was the first new ship for Eastern & Australian Steam Ship Company since 1910.
- 27.03.1970
- Renamed Tanda.
- 05.07.1970
- Sustained hull damage on coming alongside at Portland, Victoria.
- 14.09.1970
- Sold to the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd, London.
- 01.10.1971
- Management transferred to P&O General Cargo Division.
- 09.05.1972
- Sold through Mitsui and Co Ltd, London, to Tung Cheng Steel Corporation, Taiwan, for demolition.
- 22.07.1972
- Demolition commenced at Kaohsiung.
- 16.09.1972
- Work completed.