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SANGOLA (1901)

Service dates: 1914-1923

Official number: 113974

Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


Passenger/Cargo Ship.


Career

18.06.1901
Launched.
16.08.1901
Delivered as Sangola for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £91,000. She was the first of the S-class ships to be delivered. Her sisters are Shirala, Santhia, Satara, Surada, Sealda and Sofala.
23.03.1908
After offloading a number of Indian indentured labourers at Fiji, she was caught in a cyclone while berthed at Suva and was swept ashore together with the lighters into which she was discharging. She was refloated undamaged.
24.06.1914
Takeover of British India Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
1914
Served briefly as a transport.
05.1917/03.1919
Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
09.1919
She grounded at Fulta Point, inward bound to Calcutta from Australian ports, but suffered no major damage.
28.08.1923
Sold for £13,900 to the Fukuhara Kisen K.K. of Dairen who renamed her Goshu Maru.
1933
Broken up in Japan.


Ship technical details (PDF)