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ULA (1898)
Service dates: 1914-1924
Official number: 108737
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 24.03.1898
- Launched.
- 16.06.1898
- Delivered as Ula for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £62,100. She was one of the members of the U-class with her sisters named Umballa, Ujina, Uganda, Umta, Upada and Urlana.
- 1900/1901
- Trooping for the Boxer Rebellion in China.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 08.1914
- A member of the second major trooping convoy to leave India.
- 1914/1919
- Continued her trooping service throughout the war and remained unscathed.
- 29.03.1924
- Sold for £13,000 to the Kabafuto Kisen K K of Tokyo and renamed Heiyei Maru No.10.
- 10.10.1927
- Went aground at Maoka in Sakhalien in a storm with a cargo of 1,500 tons of coal and became a total loss.