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CHAKRATA (1951)
Service dates: 1951-1973
Official number: 184552
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 15.10.1951
- Launched by Mrs A Kirkwood Brown.
- 19.12.1951
- Ran trials and delivered as Chakrata for the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 24.07.1958
- Ran aground in Hobson’s Bay, arriving from India and had to discharge fuel and water before being refloated with the aid of the tug Howard Smith after twelve hours.
- 01.10.1971
- Management transferred to P&O General Cargo Division.
- 19.04.1973
- Registered in the ownership of The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 02.08.1973
- Sold to Yun Shen Steel & Ironworks Co Ltd, Taiwan, for demolition at Kaohsiung.