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GARBETA (1941)

Service dates: 1948-1963

Official number: 168066

Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


General Cargo Ship.


Career

01.11.1940
Launched.
02.1941
Delivered as Antar for the New Egypt & Levant Shipping Co Ltd (T Bowen Rees & Co, managers).
1942
Briefly served as a Mechanical Transport Ship.
08.01.1948
Sold for £335,000 to the British India Steam Navigation Company and renamed Garbeta.
06.1955
Suffered an engineroom fire at Sydney which was extinguished after an hour by smothering with foam.
18.04.1963
Sold for £47,000 to be broken up by the Hong Kong Salvage & Towage Company.


Ship technical details (PDF)