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ARONDA (1912)

Service dates: 1914-1939

Official number: 133042

Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


Passenger/Cargo Ship.


Career

07.03.1912
Launched.
07.05.1912
Delivered as Aronda for British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd at a cost of £116,668. She was the last of the A-class vessels to be launched with her sisters Abhona, Arankola and Angora.
24.06.1914
Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
08.1914
Requisitioned for an Indian Expeditionary Force transport and sailed from Bombay and Karachi to Suez and Marseilles.
07.1919
Released from service. Used to repatriate invalids from Egypt to the UK.
28.03.1939
Sold for Rs 91,000 to Esmailjee Abdulhusein for scrapping at Bombay.


Ship technical details (PDF)