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ITINDA (1900)
Service dates: 1914-1918
Official number: 111253
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 02.03.1900
- Launched.
- 11.04.1900
- Delivered as Itinda for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £77,700. She was part of the I-class ships to be delivered along with her sisters Itaura, Islanda, Itola, Ismaila, Ikhona and Itria.
- 1900
- Brief employment as a charter for the Boxer Rebellion.
- 11.10.1911
- Went aground in the Hooghly River leaving Calcutta and bound for Mauritius.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1914/1918
- Spent most of the war serving as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
- 04.1918
- Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 10.05.1918
- While on a voyage from Syracuse, bound for Alexandria carrying a load of government stores as well as survivors of her sister ship Itria, she was struck by a single torpedo from the Austrian U47 64km (40 miles) north of Marsa Susa. It struck the No.5 hold, where the cargo included twenty tons of high explosive shell. The explosion nearly blew the stern away. Fortunately there had been only one casualty out of her crew of 142 and the ship was abandoned as she settled by the stern. Fire broke out and spread forward and five hours after she had been struck, the Itinda sank stern first.