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ARANKOLA (1911)
Service dates: 1914-1937
Official number: 129533
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 02.11.1910
- Launched.
- 20.01.1911
- Delivered as Arankola for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £115,500. She was the second of the A-class vessels to be launched with her sisters Abhona, Angora and Aronda.
- 01.09.1912
- Ran aground on the James & Mary Shoal in the Hooghly but was able to get away in 24 hours suffering only damage to her paint.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1914/10.1916
- Served as a war transport.
- 1917/1918
- Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 13.05.1920
- Collided with the Royal Indian Marine steamer Mayo in Monkey Point Channel out bound from Rangoon. Her mails and passengers had to be transferred to Ellora. The Mayo (originally BI’s Kavlana) sank with a large hole torn in her starboard side.
- 1923
- Carried the Viceroy, Lord Reading, to Rangoon.
- 1932
- Laid up at Calcutta.
- 30.07.1937
- Sold, along with Angora, for £42,500 to Japanese shipbreakers and were subsequently scrapped.