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POONA (1905)
Service dates: 1905-1924
Official number: 121202
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 24.12.1904
- Launched.
- 30.01.1905
- Registered as Poona for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £103,943.
- 10.02.1905
- Left her builders and loaded for her maiden voyage to China and Japan.
- 1906
- Refrigerating machinery fitted, and in the same year inaugurated a new Australian cargo service.
- 1910
- Refused entry to the Mersey with a cargo of Chinese pork and poultry, owing to a dock strike, and was forced to unload on the Continent.
- 08.1912
- Deadweight 10,711 tons. Draught 8.366m (27ft 5½in).
- 16.12.1913
- In Sydney sent her fire crew to help put out a fire aboard the British India steamer Janus.
- 03.12.1916
- Sailed from London bound for Calcutta.
- 06.12.1916
- Struck a mine in the English Channel 15km (9 miles) south of Beachy Head. Her forward hold quickly flooded and because of transverse cracks there was a likelihood she might break amidships, so her crew took to the boats. Later reboarded by some officers and six seamen, she was towed stern-first for 40 hours by the destroyer HMS Exe and two tugs to Spithead in worsening sea conditions. Despite having to wait 24 hours for a berth she was dry-docked in time, repaired and returned to service.
- 1921
- Had a fire on board when in the London Docks.
- 08.10.1924
- Sold for £18,000 to F Pittaluga fu G, Italy, for demolition.
- 15.10.1924
- Handed over and renamed Po. She loaded a cargo of coal at Barry for Genoa.
- 10.11.1924
- Arrived in Genoa for discharge and breaking up.