Pohlednice - loď Chitral.

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10/1923: Ordered.
27/01/1925: Launched by the Hon. Elsie Mackay, daughter of P&O Chairman Lord Inchcape.
12/06/1925: Ran trials and delivered to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, London. As built she could carry 203 First Class and 103 Second Class passengers. CHITRAL and her sisters CATHAY and COMORIN were designed for the Australian run, and their delivery enabled P&O to restore the fortnightly Australian mail schedule, but they were also used on other routes and lacked the reserves of speed really required by a mail steamer.
03/07/1925: Left London on her maiden voyage to Australia via Marseilles, Suez, Aden, and Colombo.
1930: Fitted with Bauer~Wach low~pressure exhaust turbines and Wyndham heaters to augment her speed and improve fuel efficiency.
1933: Carried the (dismantled) gunboat HMS SANDPIPER from Southampton to Shanghai for service on the Yangtse.
1935: Transferred full~time to UK/Far East service.
30/08/1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as an armed merchant cruiser and converted by her builders. Her after funnel was removed and seven 6~inch and two 3~inch guns were fitted.
14/10/1939: Working up at Scapa Flow when HMS ROYAL OAK was torpedoed.
20/11/1939: While serving on the Northern Patrol received news from the captured German merchantman BERTHA FISSER of the approach of the battlecruisers SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU.
23/11/1939: Rescued 10 survivors from P&O’s RAWALPINDI, also serving as an armed merchant cruiser, sunk by SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU.
09/1940: Made three trooping voyages to Reykjavik as part of the reinforcement of the garrison in Iceland.
11/11/1940: Sent to search for survivors of the armed merchant cruiser JERVIS BAY sunk by the German warship ADMIRAL SCHEER.
09/1941: Transferred to the East Indies Fleet and remained in the Indian Ocean until the end of 1943.
10/04/1944: Redelivered from Admiralty. Converted to a troopship by the Maryland Dry Dock Company, Baltimore, USA, during which her second funnel was replaced.
14/09/1944: Left Baltimore for voyage New York/Clyde with US troops.
17/09/1947: Returned to her owners and reconditioned in London by R & H Green and Silley Weir Ltd. She returned to her pre~war black hull and funnels, not adopting P&O’s newer white livery. Her mainmast was removed and her forward well was plated in.
30/12/1948: Re~entered the Australian trade carrying 740 emigrants on outward journeys in extremely spartan conditions.
1950: Assisted with the repatriation of Dutch nationals from Indonesia.
02/1953: Last sailing for Australia beset by mechanical problems including enforced conversion from quadruple to triple expansion in 36 hours.
22/03/1953: Arrived in London for the last time.
02/04/1953: Sold for £167,500 to British Iron and Steel Corporation (Salvage) Ltd. Handed over for demolition to W. H. Arnott Young Ltd., Dalmuir where she had arrived on 01/04/1953.

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