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BINFIELD (1919)
Service dates: 1919-1950
Official number: 141895
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 11.1918
- Launched as War Acacia for Shipping Controller (Walter Runceman & Co, managers).
- 03.1919
- Purchased for £150,000 by the British India Steam Navigation Company and renamed Binfield.
- 29.03.1919
- Delivered.
- 09.07.1919
- Damaged in a collision with Compass off Orfordness. She had to put into Gravesend for repairs.
- Mid-1920s
- Temporarily hoisted the defaced Blue Ensign of the lighthouse service when she was chartered for inspection and landing of relief crews for the Basses Lights off Ceylon, the usual ship not being available.
- 13.06.1934
- Grounded in the West Channel off Ceylon.
- 1940/1946
- Taken up under the Liner Division.
- 11.1950
- Sold for £26,000 after a long career for a wartime standard vessel, to Trans Oceanic Steamship Company, Karachi and retained her name.
- 12.1950
- Sold to Wheelock, Marden & Co Ltd, Hong Kong.
- 1951
- Sold to Kobe Kinkai KK, Japan, and renamed Kyuko Maru.
- 1960
- Broken up at Mihara.