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CHILKANA (1914)
Service dates: 1914
Official number: 136315
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 09.07.1914
- Launched.
- 05.09.1914
- Completed as Chilkana for British India Steam Navigation Company. Originally ordered by F C Strick & Co, she was purchased by BI early in the construction phase. Cost £75,000.
- 19.10.1914
- While she was on one of her first voyages to Calcutta, outward bound from the Tees and London, she was stopped by the German cruiser Emden in the Arabian Sea 175km (110 miles) ENE of Minikoi. After her crew had been transferred, the Chilkana was sunk by gunfire from the warship.