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TEESTA (1903)
Service dates: 1914-1927
Official number: 115777
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 29.12.1902
- Launched.
- 07.1903
- Completed.
- 24.07.1903
- Registered as Teesta for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £146,700. She was one of four sisters (Tara, Taroba and Thongwa). They were the largest ships yet delivered to the company and they were among the largest deck passenger carriers in service.
- 06.1911
- Collided with a tug at Tanjong Pagar.
- 24.06.1914
- Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1914/04/1916
- Requisitioned as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
- 25.08.1914
- Trooped Karachi/Marseilles followed by Karachi/Suez.
- 20.08.1915
- Left Marseilles for Port Said with troops, but was recalled while she was 145km (90 miles) out. The trip was cancelled and she was re-routed to Mudros.
- 01.1916
- Served as an ambulance transport for 800 patients. She carried non-bedridden men (ie amputees, blinded, etc.)
- 1917/12.1919
- Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 1918
- Embarked 259 Canadian Expeditionary Force Battalion and transported it across the Pacific to Vladivostok as part of the operations against the Bolsheviks.
- 17.04.1927
- Sold for £15,250 to Torakichi Yamauchi.
- 1928
- Broken up at Kobe.