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ITRIA (1940)

Service dates: 1940-1958

Official number: 167426

Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

12.06.1940
Launched
09.05.1940
Completed as Itria for the British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £211,400
05.1940
Requisitioned for the Liner Division
1940/1946
Carried vehicles and stores throughout the War especially between India, the Persian Gulf, Chittagong, Arakan, Rangoon, Malaya and Java
1946
Her funnel cowl was removed
11.1948
Was torn away from her moorings during a hurricane at Bombay
02.07.1949
Suffered a cargo fire in the cotton in Nos.1 and 2 holds at Yokkaichi which took two days to extinguish and necessitated a call at Kobe for repairs
07.1950
Converted to oil fuel
11.07.1958
Sold for £150,000 to United Oriental Line, Pakistan, and renamed Iqbalbaksh
1970
Laid up
01.04.1971
Broken up at Gadani Beach by Ilyas Marine Company


Ship technical details (PDF)