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ZIRA (1900)
Service dates: 1914-1922
Official number: 120294
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 21.11.1900
- Launched.
- 12.1900
- Completed as Tanglin for Norddeutscher Lloyd of Bremen for their Singapore/ Bangkok service at a cost of £38,500.
- 18.10.1902
- Dropped a blade from her propeller while entering Moreton Bay and had to go into dry-dock at Brisbane.
- 1903
- Chartered to convoy members and equipment of the German Antarctic expedition to the Kerguelen Islands, where they joined the expedition ship Gauss.
- 1908
- Sold to Bengal Steam Navigation Company along with her sister Paknam.
- 15.09.1910
- British India Steam Navigation Company acquired Paknam and her sister Tanglin at an auction at Rangoon for a total of Rs 600,000. Both went to Calcutta for a refit and the Tanglin was renamed Zira.
- 24.16.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1914/1915
- On the Colombo/Tuticorin service.
- 1916/1917
- Served as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
- 1918
- Returned to its original Bangkok/Singapore service.
- 28.06.1922
- Sold for £9,121 to the Shawhsing Steamship Co Ltd of Newchwang and renamed Hohsing for trading on the China coast.
- 01.1942
- She was sold to a Japanese company and renamed Wako Maru.
- 03.08.1945
- Mined off Wakasa Bay, Honshu.
- 1950
- The wreck was located in shallow water and she was subsequently cut up for scrap.