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Builder |
Tonnage |
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D |
Fate |
168363 |
1942 |
Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd |
7,043 |
485.7 |
62.9 |
28.7 |
Sold for scrapping 1969 |
Capt H.M. Macdonald - Master 1952 |
The above image is from 1945, note she still has her guns fitted.
1942 |
23.10.1942 - Launched. |
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24.12.1942 - Completed as Chyebassa for the British India Steam Navigation Company. She had three sister ships, Canara, Chanda and Chupra. |
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Requisitioned for the Liner Division. |
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1948 |
14.02.1948 - As she lay in Duke & Orr’s dock, fire broke out in the insulation and threatened to spread to the bunker tanks before it was brought under control through the combined efforts of crew and shore firefighting parties, working through choking, acrid smoke to get at the seat of the flames. |
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She was altered in Melbourne, Australia to carry 1,110 cubic metres (39,200 cubic feet) of refrigerated cargo.
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1961 |
12.07.1961 - She collided with the German vessel Widar off the Hook of Holland, while on her way from Middlesbrough to Rotterdam and Calcutta. Damaged on the port side she continued to Rotterdam, where she was delayed for a month.
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1969 |
13.06.1969 - Sold for scrapping by Leung Yau Shipbreaking Co, Hong Kong. |
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