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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.