The Sirdhana (60 Dh.) is a motorship of 8,608 gross tons, 5,057 net, built in 1947 by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd. at Newcastle, for British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.. Her dimensions are 459 x 62.7 x 31.3 ft. with two Doxford type oil engines supplied by the builders which give her a speed of 14'/2 knots. Her sister ships are the Santhia (1950) built by Barclay, Curie and Co. Ltd., employed on the Bombay and Karachi to the Persian Gulf service, and the Sangola, (1947) built by Barclay Curie and Co. Ltd. but employed on the Calcutta to Straits service. The Sirdhana carries 92 saloon passengers and 729 bunked, but also carries many unberthed passengers.
Sea Breezes June 1969.
Dubai SG320
Sirdhana
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Re: Sirdhana
Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard No 1826 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle for the British India Steam Navigation Co., London.
8 Jan. 1947, launched as "SIRDHANA" was named after a district and town in northern India. Mrs. Duncan, wife of Bl's superintendent engineer, christened her.
Tonnage grt 8.608, net 5.057, 8,827 dwt.; dim. 479'4" x 62'10" x 26'4"
Powered by two 4-cyl. Doxford diesels, 5,900 bhp, 2 screws, 14 kn.
Accommodation for 92 saloon, 729 bunked, and 675 deck passengers.
She was special built together with two sisters the "SANGOLA" and "SANTHIA" for the Acpar line of the BI from Calcutta to Chinese and Japanese ports. Under command of Capt. H.E. Evans, she sailed on her maiden voyage from the Tyne to London for loading, then to Mombasa where she arrived 28 Jan. 1948 with 6,345 tons of cargo. She arrived in Bombay on Feb. 6, and proceeded to Calcutta. As early as the mid-1950s, the Calcutta-Yokohama (Acpar Line) was over-tonnaged, and in 1956, she left this line and was placed in the service between Bombay and the Persian Gulf. At the end of the 1950s she once again made voyages in the Acpar service and in 1958, was chartered by the Pakistan government for some pilgrim voyages between Pakistan and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Then again in the Gulf service. On 26 Nov. 1960, she was rammed amidships by the American transport "GENERAL WILLIAM MITCHELL" at Yokohama. On 19 Nov. 1970, she opened the new deepwater harbor, Port Rashis in Dubai, and was the first merchant vessel to go alongside. On 22 Feb. 1972, she was placed in the East Africa service for three voyages, turning round at Dar-es-Salaam; the last one concluding at Bombay on 20th May.
She was sold on 3 August 1972 to Taiwanese ship breakers, arriving at Kaohsiung by the ship-breaking yard of Nan Feng Steel Enterprise Co., demolition work commenced on August 16.
Dubai 1969 60d sg320, scott91.
Bangladesh 1980 10t sg157, scott184.
Sources: LRS-1969; W. A. Laxon & F. W. Perry, The British India Steam Navigation Company Limited.
8 Jan. 1947, launched as "SIRDHANA" was named after a district and town in northern India. Mrs. Duncan, wife of Bl's superintendent engineer, christened her.
Tonnage grt 8.608, net 5.057, 8,827 dwt.; dim. 479'4" x 62'10" x 26'4"
Powered by two 4-cyl. Doxford diesels, 5,900 bhp, 2 screws, 14 kn.
Accommodation for 92 saloon, 729 bunked, and 675 deck passengers.
She was special built together with two sisters the "SANGOLA" and "SANTHIA" for the Acpar line of the BI from Calcutta to Chinese and Japanese ports. Under command of Capt. H.E. Evans, she sailed on her maiden voyage from the Tyne to London for loading, then to Mombasa where she arrived 28 Jan. 1948 with 6,345 tons of cargo. She arrived in Bombay on Feb. 6, and proceeded to Calcutta. As early as the mid-1950s, the Calcutta-Yokohama (Acpar Line) was over-tonnaged, and in 1956, she left this line and was placed in the service between Bombay and the Persian Gulf. At the end of the 1950s she once again made voyages in the Acpar service and in 1958, was chartered by the Pakistan government for some pilgrim voyages between Pakistan and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Then again in the Gulf service. On 26 Nov. 1960, she was rammed amidships by the American transport "GENERAL WILLIAM MITCHELL" at Yokohama. On 19 Nov. 1970, she opened the new deepwater harbor, Port Rashis in Dubai, and was the first merchant vessel to go alongside. On 22 Feb. 1972, she was placed in the East Africa service for three voyages, turning round at Dar-es-Salaam; the last one concluding at Bombay on 20th May.
She was sold on 3 August 1972 to Taiwanese ship breakers, arriving at Kaohsiung by the ship-breaking yard of Nan Feng Steel Enterprise Co., demolition work commenced on August 16.
Dubai 1969 60d sg320, scott91.
Bangladesh 1980 10t sg157, scott184.
Sources: LRS-1969; W. A. Laxon & F. W. Perry, The British India Steam Navigation Company Limited.
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