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BARJORA (1912)
Service dates: 1914-1949
Official number: 133060
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 04.06.1912
- Launched.
- 10.07.1912
- Ran trials and delivered as Barjora for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £61,100.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 09.1914
- Taken up as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
- 10.1914
- Part of the third major convoy from India.
- 11.1914
- Involved in the landings at Tanga, acting as an ambulance transport to Mombassa.
- 1914/1918
- Remained on transport duty on the East African coast.
- 06.1919
- Released from transport duty.
- 08.1939/12.1939
- Taken up as an Armament Stores Issuing Ship.
- 03.1940
- Joined the Liner Division.
- 1942
- Spent eight months as a Personnel and Military Store Ship.
- 12.1942
- Became a Mechanical Transport Ship.
- 26.04.1949
- Sold for £10,500 to British Iron & Steel Co for breaking up.
- 07.1949
- Broken up by Clayton & Davie Ltd in Dunston-on-Tyne.