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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.