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WAR LANCE (1918)
Service dates: 1919-1939
Official number: 142417
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 07.1917
- Launched.
- 02.1918
- Completed as War Lance for the Shipping Controller (Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, managers).
- 13.01.1919
- Put into Gibraltar with propeller damage.
- 08.11.1919
- Acquired by British India Steam Navigation Company for £216,400.
- 02.1920
- Renamed Hatipara.
- 07.07.1920
- At Gibraltar she had a broken high-pressure piston.
- 18.03.1922
- Fire broke out while she was loading flax at Wellington. The flax had to be landed and a considerable amount of water entered No.2 hold before the blaze was extinguished.
- 10.05.1930
- She struck Redcar Wharf, while proceeding up the River Tees in fog to dock at Middlesbrough but only sustained minor damage.
- 02.1931
- Suffered a fire in her cargo of cotton while discharging at Dunkirk. 1,100 bales were damaged by fire and water and 1,800 bags of groundnuts were also damaged by water, with some minor damage to the ship before the outbreak was brought under control.
- 09.01.1939
- Sold for £12,900 to Frank Rijsdijk’s Industries and demolished at Hendrik Ido Ambacht in April.