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GORALA (1919)
Service dates: 1919-1924
Official number: 141921
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 26.08.1919
- Launched as War Terrier.
- n.d.
- Acquired by British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 20.09.1919
- Completed as Gorala for British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 07.1924
- Sold for £46,500 to the King Line and renamed King Edward (Dodd, Thomson & Co Ltd, managers).
- 02.1940
- Requisitioned by the government.
- 27.12.1942
- Torpedoed by U356 in the North Atlantic (47°25’N-25°20’W) while in convoy ONS 154. 23 lives lost.