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FULTALA (1890)

Service dates: 1914-1923

Official number: 98589

Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


Passenger/Cargo Ship.


Career

04.10.1890
Launched.
11.1890
Completed as Fultala for British India Steam Navigation Company.
12.11.1890
Registered.
24.12.1890
During a voyage from Tyne to Aden, she arrived at Gibraltar with an engine out of order.
13.09.1897
Minor brush with a pier at Williamstown.
1901
In Government service conveying troops to Kismayu for the Jubaland expedition in the Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion.
24.06.1914
Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
06.1917
Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
15.08.1923
Sold for Rs 60,000 and broken up at Bombay.


Ship technical details (PDF)