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HOMAYUN (1895)
Service dates: 1914-1923
Official number: 108180
Shipping lines: BOMBAY & PERSIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 17.09.1894
- Launched.
- 01.1895
- Completed as Leopoldville for Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo, Antwerp.
- 1896
- Sold to African Steam Ship Company Ltd (Elder Dempster & Co, managers), London, and renamed Biafra.
- 1910
- Sold to Bombay & Persia Steam Navigation Company Ltd and renamed Homayun.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company (Bombay & Persia Steam Navigation Company Ltd was their subsidiary company) by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1923
- Broken up in UK.