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BANGALA (1902)
Service dates: 1914-1924
Official number: 115726
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 04.09.1902
- Launched.
- 28.11.1902
- Delivered as Bangala for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £113,500. She was a sister to Bharata and Bihara.
- n.d.
- Recertified the number of deck passengers to 2,421.
- 1905
- Moved to the Calcutta/Coconada service (via small Indian coastal ports such as Calingapatam and Vizagapatam).
- 1907
- She briefly ran the Calcutta/Rangoon/Madras service.
- 1913/1914
- Briefly employed on the Colombo/Tuticorin service.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 08.1914
- A member of the first troop-carrying convoy with life Bombay for Egypt.
- 10.1914
- Transported troops to Marseilles.
- 01.06.1916
- Arrived at Calcutta after grounding at Hooghly Point.
- 09.11.1916
- During a voyage from Calcutta to Rangoon, she ran aground in the Hooghly River.
- 1917/1919
- Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 03.02.1922
- Had I.P. valve damage on a voyage from Rangoon to Madras.
- 10.05.1922
- Damaged her rudder after striking the quay at Rangoon.
- 19.05.1924
- Sold for £15,000 to the major Japanese liner firm Osaka Shosen Kabushiki Kaisha and renamed Taizan Maru. They employed her mainly between Japan and Formosa.
- 1939
- Sold to Toa Kaiun KK, Tokyo.
- 14.06.1942
- Lost by a collision in the Yellow Sea.