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TABORA (1948)
Service dates: 1948-1953
Official number: 182840
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 1948
- Completed as Julyvanda for Rene Zarb and R H Elkington.
- 12.08.1948
- Sold for £60,000 to the British India Steam Navigation Company and renamed Tabora. She was the only Egyptian-built ship in company history.
- 07.05.1953
- Sold to Grey, Mackenzie & Co Ltd for service in the Persian Gulf from Bahrain without a change of name.
- 1958
- On the formation of the Inchcape Group, she passed into the ownership of their Gulf shipowning subsidiary, the Dilmun Navigation Co Ltd.
- 1975
- Sold out of Inchcape Group service.
- 1992
- Deleted from Lloyd’s Register in the absence of any report of her continued existence.