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URLANA (1899)

Service dates: 1914-1924

Official number: 111224

Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

07.09.1899
Launched.
09.10.1899
Registered as Urlana for British India Steam Navigation Company.
01.1900
Made one transport voyage from Bombay to Durban during the Boer War.
24.06.1914
Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
29.07.1914
Aground in Hooghly River on arrival into Calcutta from Rangoon.
08.1914
A member of the second major convoy from Bombay.
1914/07.1919
Served as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport without experiencing any enemy interference.
29.01.1924
Sold for £9,500 to Fratelli Beraldo of Genoa and was renamed Operosita.
1928
Passed to the Soc. Anon. Marittima ‘San Pietro’ of Genoa and renamed Carmine Filomena.
02.07.1937
Rammed her bows into the rocks of Lundy Island in thick fog and was subsequently wrecked.


Ship technical details (PDF)