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GAMBADA (1918)
Service dates: 1919-1938
Official number: 142614
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 07.1918
- Launched.
- 09.1918
- Completed as War Robin for the Shipping Controller (H Roberts & Son, manager).
- 25.09.1919
- Sold to British India Steam Navigation Company for £188,600 and renamed Gambada.
- 03.08.1920
- During a voyage from Barbados to Cuba, she arrived with her bunkers on fire and had to put into St Lucia to discharge the coal before the seat of the fire could be found.
- 01.08.1921
- Suffered damage when she struck the quay wall while entering Dunkerque.
- 19.09.1938
- Sold for £7,750 to Frank Rijsdijks Industries Ltd, Hull.
- 11.11.1938
- Demolition commenced.