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NYANZA (1956)
Service dates: 1956-1974
Official number: 187472
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.; P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 13.03.1956
- Launched by Mrs E M Goodman.
- 22.11.1956
- Completed as Nyanza for the British India Steam Navigation Company.
- 17.11.1964
- Ownership, management and operation transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Renamed Balranald.
- 1965
- Shipped Donald Campbell’s speedboat Bluebird back from Australia after she broke the world water speed record.
- 23.07.1968
- Returned to the British India Steam Navigation Company and renamed Nyanza. Her sister Baradine was also in the deal, an exchange for the faster Waroonga and Woodarra.
- 01.10.1971
- Management transferred to P&O General Cargo Division.
- 29.03.1972
- Ownership transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 06.03.1974
- Sold to Arya National Shipping Lines SA, Iran, and renamed Arya Gol.
- 1977
- Sold to Bawa Ltd, Pakistan, for demolition.
- 06.03.1977
- Arrived at Gadani Beach.
- 04.1977
- Demolition commenced.