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Laid down as War Sybil for the Shipping Controller. |
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| 1919 |
August 12th - Launched. |
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September 23rd - Completed as Nardana for the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd. |
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October 20th - Delivered. |
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| 1920 |
September 3rd - Arrived at Antwerp with weather damage on a voyage from Calcutta. |
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| 1929 |
She was given a major overhaul in which two low pressure turbines were installed, each double-reduction geared through a hydraulic coupling to the same shaft as one of the reciprocating engines. |
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Following the completion of her overhaul, she was fitted out as a Company cadet ship carrying 39 cadets which she took off the Woodara after that ship was sold in August 1929. |
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| 1938 |
April - Arrived at Port Said on her outward voyage to Brisbane with a leak in No.4 starboard bilge well. |
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| 1940 |
April - Came under the Liner Division. |
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| 1941 |
March 8th - En route from Bombay and Cape Town to London in convoy SL 67, she was torpedoed by U124 965km (600 miles) north-east of the Cape Verde Islands (20°51’N-20°32’W). The ship sank quickly with the loss of nineteen of her crew but the surviving 106 crew and two gunners were picked up from the boats by a destroyer and landed at Gibraltar. The attack sank five ships: Nardana, Harmodius, Hindpool, Tielbank and Lahore. |
