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BOOLDANA (1880)
Service dates: 1914-1933
Official number: 82316
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 11.12.1879
- Keel laid.
- 21.04.1880
- Purchased by British India Steam Navigation Company.
- 07.06.1880
- Launched. Notable as the first steel ship built for BI.
- 12.07.1880
- Delivered as Booldana for British India Steam Navigation Company.
- 20.07.1880
- Maiden voyage. Propeller shaft broke in Mediterranean and towed into Malta for repairs.
- 1882
- Served as transport for Egyptian campaign.
- 1885/1886
- Served as transport for Burmese War.
- 04.1887
- Made exploratory voyage from Calcutta to Mauritius.
- 03.02.1888
- Collided and grounded in river leaving port.
- 22.05.1888
- Arrived in Calcutta with broken main shaft.
- 1891
- Chartered to Union Steamship Company of New Zealand.
- 01.1892
- Collided with breakwater at Madras.
- 21.09.1895
- Swept ashore in cyclone at False Point, refloated and proceeded to Calcutta.
- 1900
- Made one Boer War trooping voyage from Bombay to Durban.
- 1909
- Hulked at Mauritius as cargo storeship.
- 21.01.1920
- Sold to local owners.
- 1933
- Made redundant and hull run ashore at entrance to Grand River North West.