Tairea
1924
(Navis NM-904)
- Type: Passenger / general cargo
- Displacement: 7,933 grt / 8,250 dwt
- Dimensions: 466-0 x 60-2 x 27-3 ft.
- Machinery: Steam triple expansion, twin screw 7,700 ihp = 16 knots
- Passengers: 56 first class, 80 second class, 3262 deck
- Builder: Barclay, Curle & Co, Glasgow, England, 1924
- Service: Built for British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd's Calcutta Apcar Line service to Japan. Transferred 1937 to Bombay-Durban run due to Sino-Japanese war. Converted 1940 at Bombay to Hospital Ship No.35 with 506 beds, 120 medical staff; dispatched to Kismayu, Somaliland. In 1942 served at Madagascar, Alexandria, and Smyrna. In 1943 she was at both Sicily and Salerno invasions. In 1945 she repatriated POWs from Hong Kong to India. Resumed Bombay-Durban service 1946, then reverted to Calcutta-Japan service in 1949. Sold late 1951 for breakup at Blyth. Sister ships Takliwa and Talamba.
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