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ss. Chyebassa (III)

   

 


Official Number Date Builder Tonnage L B 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.
   
" 24.12.1942 - Completed as Chyebassa for the British India Steam Navigation Company. She had three sister ships, Canara, Chanda and Chupra.
   
" Requisitioned for the Liner Division.
   
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.
   
" She was altered in Melbourne, Australia to carry 1,110 cubic metres (39,200 cubic feet) of refrigerated cargo.
   
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.
   
   
   
   
1969 13.06.1969 - Sold for scrapping by Leung Yau Shipbreaking Co, Hong Kong.

 

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