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JAPAN (1906)
Service dates: 1914-1926
Official number: 98349
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 05.07.1906
- Launched.
- 20.09.1906
- Delivered as Japan for Apcar Line at a cost of £88,000.
- 27.02.1912
- Sold to British India Steam Navigation Company.
- 15.04.1912
- Transferred to British India service.
- 07.02.1913
- Ran aground at Saratoga Spit, Japan, inward bound from Calcutta. She was refloated without sustaining any damage.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1917/1919
- Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 30.03.1922
- Fire broke out in her cargo hold while at Hong Kong, but she managed to remain undamaged.
- 13.04.1926
- Sold for £15,500 to Japanese owners. She was delivered to Kobe, although it appears that her owners did not trade her.
- 1928
- Broken up in Japan.