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CATHERINE APCAR (1892)

Service dates: 1914-1922

Official number: 98338

Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


Passenger/Cargo Ship.


Career

26.04.1892
Launched.
06.1892
Completed as Catherine Apcar for the Apcar Line at a cost of £54,000.
18.07.1893
Grounded on arrival at Singapore inbound from Calcutta.
15.04.1912
Sold to British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
10.1913
Ran aground in the river at Chittagong without serious damage.
24.06.1914
Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company approved.
22.09.1914
Berthed at Madras when the port was shelled by the German cruiser Emden. The German’s main target was the oil tanks and Catherine Apcar came through unscathed.
1915/1916
Served as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
1917/1919
Served under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
03.1918/1921
Under the Scheme, she went to the Colombo/Tuticorin service.
10.06.1822
Sold for £7,600 to Shiroto Kenshiro of Tarumi who renamed her Kumamoto Maru.
1926
Sold to Syarashi Yokichi without a change of name.
1929
Broken up at Kobe.


Ship technical details (PDF)