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ss NEVASA
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ss NEVASA
built by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow,
Yard No 733 Engines by shipbuilder
Port of Registry: London
Propulsion: Two sets of Parsons 3-stage steam turbines, single reduction geared via double helical gearing to twin screws, 18400shp, 18 knots
Launched: Wednesday, 30/11/1955
Built: 1956
Ship Type: TroopShip
Ship's Role: Trooping 1956-62. Educational cruising 1965-75
Tonnage: 20527 gross; 11496 net; 6810 dwt (as built)
Length: 609ft 3in
Breadth: 78ft 3in
Draught: 26ft 7in
Owner History:
British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd
Status: Scrapped - 1975
Remarks:
00/05/1953: Laid down.
30/11/1955: Launched by Mrs JA Boyd
Carpenter, wife of the then Minister of Transport.
12/07/1956: Delivered and entered service as a troopship, initially on a 15 year charter.
27/07/1956: Maiden sailing to Famagusta, Cyprus.
04/04/1957: White Paper foreshadows end of sea trooping.
04/10/1962: Last trooping voyage before the Army switched entirely to air
transport.
13/10/1962: Laid up in the River Fal.
30/11/1964: Towed to Falmouth for conversion by Silley, Cox and Co. Ltd., into an educational cruise ship at a cost of less than £1,000,000. Capacity
now 308 cabin passengers and 1,090 students in dormitory berths,
tonnages 20160 gross, 10880 net, 6333 dwt.
17/10/1965: Departed Falmouth.
28/10/1965: Left Southampton on her first cruise as an educational cruise ship, to the Atlantic Islands.
01/10/1971: Operation and management transferred to P&O Passenger Division,
but she continued to carry British India SN Co livery.
05/12/1972: Ownership transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Co.
11/01/1975: Arrived at Malta at the end of her final cruise. She was withdrawn due to unprecedented increases in operating costs: educational cruising
had been a marginal activity for some time, and could not justify an
expensive steamship when the cost of fuel oil was rising enormously. She had operated almost 200 voyages, carrying nearly 188,000 children almost a quarter of a million miles. Towards the end of her career she undertook a number of cruises for philatelists, military battle enthusiasts and other “specialist interest” groups.
30/03/1975: Arrived at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
02/04/1975: Sold to Nan Feng Steel Enterprise Co Ltd, for demolition.
10/06/1975: Work commenced at Kaohsiung.
Additional data by Bruce Biddulph.
Previous updates by Paul Strathdee,and Colin Campbell.
Photo supplied by the Joe McMillan Collection.
Last updated: by John Newth from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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