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HINDU (1894)

Service dates: 1914-1923

Official number: 102861

Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


Passenger/Cargo Ship.


Career

20.02.1894
Launched for D Macneill & Co, Calcutta, for local services at a cost of £25,000.
09.10.1901
Sold to British India Steam Navigation Company, although she had been on charter to the company since 1897 for the Colombo/Tuticorin service.
1901
Transferred to the Rangoon/Moulmein/Mergui service.
01.1906
She collided with a native brig in the Rangoon River.
1910
Transferred to the Chittagong/Akyab service.
31.01.1910
Grounded at Chittagong.
24.06.1914
Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
1914
Briefly returned to the Colombo/Tuticorin service following the outbreak of war.
1917
Employed briefly as an auxiliary patrol vessel for the Royal Indian Navy.
1918
Returned to the Rangoon/Moulmein/Mergui service.
15.08.1923
Sold for Rs 12,000 for breaking up at Calcutta.


Ship technical details (PDF)