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PINJARRA (1944)
Service dates: 1946-1962
Official number: 180138
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; P&O ORIENT LINE; BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 25.02.1944
- Launched.
- 07.1944
- Completed as Empire Paragon for the Ministry of War Transport (Ellerman’s Wilson Line Ltd, managers).
- 03.07.1946
- Purchased by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and renamed Pinjarra after a town 100km (60 miles) south of Perth in Western Australia.
- 11.07.1946
- Maiden P&O sailing.
- 1952
- Shipped home several consignments of Australian black swans for Sir Winston Churchill.
- 05.1960
- Management and operation transferred to P&O-Orient Lines.
- 04.05.1961
- Management and operation transferred to British India Steam Navigation Company.
- 22.06.1962
- Sold to International Export Lines Ltd, Nassau, and renamed Hong Kong Importer.
- 1969
- Sold to Taiwan shipbreakers.
- 26.12.1969
- Arrived at Kaohsiung for demolition.