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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)