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CHANDA (1944)
Service dates: 1944-1969
Official number: 169896
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 09.05.1944
- Launched.
- 12.07.1944
- Delivered as Chanda to the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 07.1944/03/1946
- Requisitioned immediately for the Liner Division.
- 11.1948
- Fitted with 1,245 cubic metres (44,000 cubic feet) of refrigerated cargo space at Melbourne, Australia.
- 18.11.1950
- Involved in a collision with Cygnet III off Tilbury, having loaded in the Tees for Brisbane, and berthed in the Royal Albert Dock for repair.
- 17.09.1969
- Sold to Jebshun Shipping Company Ltd, Hong Kong, and renamed Precious Pearl.
- 06.1971
- Sold to Taiwan shipbreakers for demolition at Kaohsiung, but the scrappers decided to sell her on to the Development Navigation Company Ltd, Singapore.
- 15.10.1971
- Caught fire on her way from Kaohsiung to Saigon and foundered in tow two days later 370km (230 miles) south of Hong Kong (22°17’N-118°07’E)