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WARORA (1948)
Service dates: 1948-1964
Official number: 181952
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 08.07.1947
- Keel laid.
- 12.03.1948
- Launched by Mrs R D C Sinclair, wife of a retired BI captain.
- 12.07.1948
- Completed as Warora for the British India Steam Navigation Company.
- n.d.
- Transferred to the Chittagong/Japan service via Burma, the Straits, Manila and Hong Kong.
- 13.08.1964
- Sold to Marsana Cia, Nav SA, Liberia, and renamed Francesca Maris.
- 1969
- Sold to Isola Shipping Corporation, Liberia, and renamed Nicolas A.
- 23.06.1972
- Arrived at San Pedro del Pinator probably with serious engine damage.
- 10.1972
- Demolition commenced by Jose Laborda Gonzalez.