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TAIREA (1924)
Service dates: 1924-1952
Official number: 147635
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 06.03.1924
- Launched.
- 05.05.1924
- Completed for the Calcutta/Japan ‘Apcar’ service at a cost of £280,600.
- 1937
- Transferred to the Bombay/Durban service due to the Sino-Japanese war.
- 1940
- Converted at the British India workshop at Bombay into Hospital Ship No.35 (506 beds, 120 medical staff). She was dispatched to Kismayu, Somaliland for the campaign there. She used her lifeboats to bring out the wounded.
- 1942
- Served at Madagascar, Alexandria and Smyrna.
- 07.1943
- Attended the invasion of Sicily.
- 09.1943
- Was at the Salerno landing together with Newfoundland, Leinster and St Andrew. All had to put out to sea and display all lights because of enemy attacks. She came back to Sicily to pick up the inshore survivors of her sister Talamba.
- 1945
- Repatriated POW’s from Hong Kong to India.
- 1946
- Resumed her Bombay/Durban service.
- 1949
- Transferred to her original Calcutta/Japan service.
- 01.04.1952
- Sold for £123,500 to be broken up by the British Iron & Steel Corporation at Blyth.