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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.