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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.