Roy, Hier komt ze.
Hartelijke groet,
---Peter.
Registered owners, managers and operators: British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd, 1962-1967 - a P&O company
Type: Educational cruise ship
Builders: Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd
Yard: Govan
Yard number: 670
Registry: London, UK
Official number: 166272
Call sign: GTTV
IMO/LR number: 508937
Classification society: Lloyd’s Register
Gross tonnage: 12,796 grt
Net tonnage: 7,166 nrt
Deadweight: 3,497 tons
Length: 157.46m (516.8ft) loa; 151.43m (497.0ft) b/p
Breadth: 19.29m (63.3ft)
Depth: 9.41m (30.9ft)
Draught: 7.490m (24.6ft)
Engines: 2 x 8-cylinder 2 SCSA Sulzer diesel engines
Engine builders: Sulzer Brothers
Works: Winterthur
Power: 6,300 bhp
Propulsion: Twin screw
Speed: 14.2 knots (service); 14.15 knots (trials)
Passenger capacity: 194 cabin passengers, 834 children in dormitories
Employment : Educational cruising
Career
20.12.1938: Launched.
07.1939: Completed as Devonshire for Bibby Line Ltd, Liverpool, as a
troopship carrying 250 passengers and 1,150 troops; 11,275 grt,
6,758 nrt.
11.08.1939: Left Southampton and did not return to the UK for 4½ years. Her duties - under RAF management though she mostly carried soldiers - took her to Marseilles, Dakar, Durban, Basrah, Bombay, Singapore, Fremantle, Tripoli and Naples.
1942: Equipped with landing craft as a Landing Ship Infantry (L). Carried assault craft to the Salerno and D-Day landings. She then served in the Malayan campaign and post-war to Korea.
04.1953: Refitted by her builders. Permanent berths and cafeteria catering being introduced. Now 320 passengers and 825 troops; 12,773 grt, 8,508 nrt.
25.01.1954: Returned to trooping to the Far East from Liverpool (until 1957) and Southampton.
1961: Ministry of Transport charter ended.
17.01.1962: Bought by the British India Steam Navigation Company for £175,000, renamed Devonia
1962: Converted for educational cruising by Barclay Curle & Co, Whiteinch, Glasgow. Passenger capacity now 194 cabin passengers and 834 children. Entered service at Easter, joining her near-sister Dunera (built in 1937 for BI) which had begun regular educational cruises the previous year. Her cruise career took her to most parts of the Mediterranean and the Baltic.
11.09.1964: Upperworks fouled by Swedish ore carrier Tostero whilst alongside at Greenock. Major superficial repairs were needed and she was in dry-dock for eight weeks.
15.12.1967: Sold to Cantieri Navali ‘Santa Maria’, Genoa to be broken up. She had completed 110 educational cruises for BI and was replaced in that trade by tss Uganda.
01.1968: Demolition began at La Spezia.