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NARINGA (1923)
Service dates: 1923-1948
Official number: 146333
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 18.12.1922
- Launched.
- 17.05.1923
- Completed as Naringa for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £199,100.
- 03.01.1925
- Collided with the Dutch steamer Celebes at Port Said and received severe damage to her stern which after patching up in Egypt, she was repaired at Bombay.
- 03.1940
- Taken up under the Liner Division.
- Mid-1942
- Served as a Mule and Personnel Ship.
- 03.02.1948
- Suffer an outbreak of fire in her jute cargo at Marseilles, however, she was able to complete the voyage under her own power and discharge the rest of her cargo at Dundee.
- 09.07.1948
- Sold to the British Iron & Steel Corporation for £14,750 and moved on to Rosyth arriving there for demolition by Metal Industries (Salvage) Ltd.