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JATTRA (1896)
Service dates: 1919-1922
Official number: 105823
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
River Paddle Steamer.
Career
- 1896
- Completed as Jattra for S McLeay, the River Steam Navigation Co, Calcutta, for Brahmaputra service.
- 1908
- Sold to McNeill & Co, Calcutta. She carried the British India Steam Navigation Company funnel.
- 1913
- Her proprietors were D F Mackenzie & G Lyell.
- 11.1913
- Suffered a fire in her cargo of jute off Budge Budge which was extinguished without damage to the ship.
- 1915/1916
- Served as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport to Mesopotamia.
- 1917/1919
- Employed as a minesweeper in the Indian Ocean.
- 29.05.1919
- Acquired by the British India Steam Navigation Company for Rs 175,000 and retained her name. She was based at Mergui and operated the ‘Jungle Run’ which served the tiny hamlets in the area. This included calls at private homes and individuals who waited on the strand for her arrival.
- 31.05.1919
- Grounded at Saugor.
- 1922
- Her final end is clouded in obscurity. It was reported to British India’s Directors that on 22nd August she was sold for Rs 12,000 to be broken up. Lloyd’s records note that she was broken up at Bombay in 1922. However, a story, with circumstantial detail, says that she grounded heavily on the Dhundra River Bar, after ramming the marker buoy whose light had failed. The story lacks the essential element of corroboration but it might well have been the reason leading to her demolition.