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CHANDPARA (1949)
Service dates: 1949-1970
Official number: 183159
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 08.07.1949
- Launched by Mrs A O Lang, wife of BI’s Managing Director.
- 22.12.1949
- Delivered as Chandpara to the British India Steam Navigation Company. Maiden voyage London/Colombo/Madras/Calcutta.
- 14.01.1952
- The Panamanian ship Liguria, chartered to the International Refugee Organisation, had left Bremerhaven for Australia with 950 passengers late the previous year and had broken down 725km (450 miles) from Fremantle. Chandpara took her in tow, arriving at Fremantle on the 17th.
- 03.1962/04.1962
- Used as a floating Australian trade Exhibition in the Gulf, calling at ten ports.
- 17.09.1965/12.10.1965
- Anchored at Muscat alongside BI’s Chantala to take on her Karachi cargo. The latter was bound for Bombay and because of the outbreak of the Indo-Pakistan War could not call at both countries.
- 30.10.1970
- Sold to Jebshun Shipping Company, Hong Kong, and renamed Princess Ruby.
- 28.03.1971
- Grounded outside Dairen and sustained heavy damage beyond economic repair in position 38°22’N-120°53’E.
- 10.1971
- Sold to Chinese shipbreakers at Dairen.