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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.