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PENTAKOTA (1890)
Service dates: 1914-1920
Official number: 98588
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 30.09.1890
- Launched.
- 10.11.1890
- Registered as Pentakota for British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 29.04.1892
- Arrived at Mauritius with damage after being ashore (en route from Calcutta).
- 1900
- Sent to China with troops for the Boxer campaign.
- 1910
- Transferred to the East African service.
- 08.04.1911
- Ran aground in the Zanzibar Channel.
- 03.1914
- Aground on Beira Bar but without suffering major damage.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 09.1914
- Immediately taken up as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport and was involved in the landings at Tanga for the invasion of German East Africa (now Tanzania) in November 1914.
- 1915/09.1919
- Used for further transport service.
- 1919
- Engaged in the Persian Gulf services.
- 02.09.1920
- Located only thirteen miles out of Jask when she ran aground on the Falha Shoal. Her hull forward was badly damaged and Nos.1 and 2 holds were soon flooded.
- 13.09.1920
- Refloated under her own power and limped back to Jask, but the damage was so severe that she touched bottom forward soon after anchoring. Temporary repairs were made, sufficient to enable her to return to Bombay, but a survey on her arrival showed that the age of the ship did not warrant the extensive repairs necessary.
- 28.12.1920
- She was sold ‘as is’ for Rs 95,000.
- 1921
- Broken up at Bombay.