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SHIRALA (1925)
Service dates: 1925-1951
Official number: 148687
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 16.10.1925
- Completed as Shirala for the British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £211,900.
- 03.1940
- Spent six years under the Liner Division.
- 1940
- Spent a brief period as a Personnel Ship.
- 1942
- Spent a brief period as a Personnel Ship.
- 1945
- Spent a brief period as a Personnel Ship.
- 1946/1947
- Served on the Bombay/East Africa service before the new K-class ships arrived.
- 1949
- Returned to the Calcutta/Japan service.
- 1950
- Employed on charter to the Pakistan Government for the Karachi/Chittagong service.
- 03.05.1951
- Sold to British Iron & Steel Corporation for £60,000 and scrapped at Blyth by Hughes Bolckow Shipbreaking Co Ltd. Her bell had previously been handed over to the Gurkha Rifles for installation as the Quarter Guard Bell at the Recruiting Depot at Jalapahur.