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OBRA (1946)
Service dates: 1946-1962
Official number: 180820
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 20.11.1945
- Launched.
- 19.02.1946
- Completed as Obra for the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 02.1946
- Requisitioned for the Liner Division. She was the last British India ship to be requisitioned.
- 1951
- Converted from coal fuel to oil fuel. The equipment was constructed by her builders at South Shields and then shipped to Bombay for installation.
- 03.1957
- Grounded on a voyage from Basrah/Karachi/Japan. She arrived in Bombay with cargo in No.1 and 2 holds damaged.
- 19.01.1962
- Sold to the Ta Hing Co Ltd, Hong Kong, and renamed Dairen.
- 1963
- Sold to the Indonesian Government and renamed Adri XIV.
- 25.09.1964
- At Kobe when typhoon ‘Wanda’ struck that port and was thrown on her side to lie just off the shore with only her port side visible above water. She was declared a constructive total loss.
- 02.1965
- Sold to the Fukada Salvage Co, who raised her and demolished the wreck at Etajima in May of that year.