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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