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CHANDA (1906)
Service dates: 1914-1925
Official number: 121308
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 27.12.1905
- Launched.
- 16.03.1906
- Delivered as Chanda for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £72,800.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1914/1918
- Served as a transport.
- 06.1918/06.1919
- Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 21.02.1919
- Collided with Australind off Dover.
- 31.03.1925
- Sold for £21,000 to Tito Campanella Soc di Nav of Genoa and renamed Pietro Campanella.
- 03.1941
- Detained at Baltimore.
- 11.09.1941
- Transferred to the US Maritime Commission with the International Freighting Corp Inc of New York as the manager.
- 25.10.1941
- Placed under the Panamanian flag as Equipoise.
- 27.03.1942
- She was torpedoed and sunk by U160 off Cape Hatteras while on her way from Rio de Janeiro to Baltimore.