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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)