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JUNA (1927)

Service dates: 1927-1941

Official number: 149848

Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


Passenger/Cargo Ship.


Career

16.05.1927
Launched.
16.06.1927
Completed as Juna for the British India Steam Navigation Company.
31.08.1939
Requisitioned for war service. Her name was too similar to the naval Juno so she became the Armed Boarding Steamer Fiona with 2 4-inch guns and 3mg. She was converted at Mazagon Dockyard.
1940
She was despatched to the Mediterranean and was then employed on the Egyptian and Libyan coast.
18.04.1941
Bombed and sunk off Sidi Barrani.


Ship technical details (PDF)