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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.