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TAKADA (1914)
Service dates: 1914-1938
Official number: 136274
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 17.12.1913
- Launched.
- 17.03.1914
- Delivered as Takada for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £150,100. Her sister is Tanda.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 08.1914
- Participated in the convoy from Karachi to Marseilles.
- 08.1915/04.1918
- Converted into an Indian Expeditionary Force Hospital Ship with 450 beds. She was used mainly in the Mesopotamian campaign.
- 04.1918
- Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 11.1918/12.1918
- Employed in repatriating prisoners of war from Hull to Rotterdam.
- ND
- Returned to the Indian Expeditionary Force as a transport and once again came under the Liner Requisition Scheme until January 1920.
- 1920
- She was put back on her original service.
- 05.1921
- Collided with the Ben liner Bengloe while the former was berthing at Singapore. Bengloe had considerable damage, although Takada received only minor damage.
- 25.08.1938
- Sold for £12,300 to Van Heyghen Freres and demolished at Ghent.