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GONDIA (1919)
Service dates: 1919-1922
Official number: 141936
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 09.10.1919
- Launched.
- 23.12.1919
- Completed as Gondia for British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 19.07.1922
- Left Rangoon for Shanghai and Kobe.
- 02.08.1922
- Received her last radio message from a position south-east of Hong Kong (22°28’N-177°15’E) and she was presumed to have founded with all 69 hands shortly after in a typhoon which was moving across the China Sea in her path. The court of enquiry suggested that her cargo of rice had broached, swelled and split her hull.