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CHAKDARA (1914)
Service dates: 1914-1933
Official number: 136317
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 08.06.1914
- Launched.
- 27.08.1914
- Delivered as Chakdara for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £84,000. She was the first of the CHAK-sisters to be delivered along with Chakdina and Chakla. She was the first ship to be built for British India Steam Navigation Company on the east coast of Scotland.
- 10.1915
- Taken up as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
- 10.1915/10.1919
- Was continuously employed on trooping duties mainly between India and the Persian Gulf or Suez.
- 1922/1923
- Had a brief run on the Rangoon/Coconada/north Coromandel ports service.
- 24.08.1933
- Sold for £23,000 to HM Nemazee’s Burma Steam Navigation Co and renamed Burmestan.
- 1933
- Almost immediately sold to Scindia Steam Navigation Co Ltd without a change of name.
- 29.07.1935
- She struck a submerged rock off Kyaukpyu while on her way from Chittagong to Rangoon.
- 30.07.1935
- Chakdara was able to be refloated but the damage proved to be too serious and she foundered later that day.