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- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company abstract "British India Steam Navigation Company (\"BI\") was formed in 1856 as the Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company. The company had been formed out of Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co, a trading partnership of the Scots William Mackinnon and Robert Mackenzie, to carry mail between Calcutta and Rangoon. It became British India SN Co in 1862. Under the hand of Lord Inchcape, who had become chairman in 1913, the company became part of the P&O group of companies in 1914 through a complex amalgamation, but continued with its own identity and organisation for another nearly 60 years until 1972, when it was entirely absorbed into P&O.As one of the largest shipowners of all time, the company owned more than 500 ships and managed 150 more for other owners. At its height in 1922, BI had more than 160 ships in the fleet, many built on Clydeside, Scotland. The main shipping routes of the line were: Britain to India, Australia, Kenya, Tanganyika. The company ran services from India to Pakistan, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, Singapore, Malaya, Java, Thailand, Japan, Persian Gulf, East Africa and South Africa. BI had a long history of service to the British and Indian governments through trooping and other military contracts. In the last decade of its operational existence BI carried thousands of school children on educational cruises. The cargo ship Gairsoppa, carrying silver bullion, pig iron and tea, which was sunk at great depth by the U-boat U-101 some 300 miles (480 km) southwest of Galway Bay, Ireland, carried the richest cargo of any sunken ship in world history Some of the company's better known passenger ships included Rajula, Dunera, Scindia, Sirdhana, Leicestershire, Dwarka, the sister ships Kampala and Karanja, and Kenya and Uganda, and Dara, which was sunk by a terrorist bomb in 1961. Nevasa of 1956 was the final passenger ship built for BI. Serving as a troopship until redundant in 1962, Nevasa was assigned new duties with the BI educational cruise ship flotilla until 1974, when she became surplus and was scrapped in 1975. Having earlier been joined in this trade by the more economic Uganda, this highly popular ship was taken up (STUFT) by the British Ministry of Defence in 1982 as a hospital ship during the Falklands war with Argentina. Returning to BI's tradition of government service again in 1983 - this time as a troopship - Uganda was \"the last BI\" when finally withdrawn in 1985. Dwarka holds the distinction of closing British-India's true \"liner\" services, when withdrawn from the company's Persian Gulf local trades in 1982, in her 35th year.".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company extinctionYear "1972".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company foundingYear "1862".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company industry Transport.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company successor P&O_(company).
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company thumbnail BI_Nevasa_badge.jpg?width=300.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageExternalLink history.htm.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageExternalLink british-india.asp.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageExternalLink SS_Gairsoppa_recovery?topic=49523.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageExternalLink www.biship.com.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageExternalLink LIWA10E.pdf.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageID "1781744".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageLength "5140".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageOutDegree "52".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageRevisionID "696700362".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Argentina.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Bay_of_Bengal.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink British_Malaya.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Calcutta_and_Burmah_Steam_Navigation_Company.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:1856_establishments_in_the_British_Empire.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:British_India.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companies_established_in_1856.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:Defunct_shipping_companies_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Myanmar.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Pakistan.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:Scotland_and_the_British_Empire.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:Shipping_companies_of_Scotland.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ships_of_the_British_India_Steam_Navigation_Company.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Consolidation_(business).
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Cruise_ship.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink East_Africa.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Falklands_War.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink File:BItimeline.jpg.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink German_submarine_U-101.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Greater_Glasgow.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Hospital_ship.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink India.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink James_Mackay,_1st_Earl_of_Inchcape.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Japan.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Java.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Kenya.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Kolkata.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Maritime_flag.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Ministry_of_Defence_(United_Kingdom).
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink P&O_(company).
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Pakistan.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Persian_Gulf.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Mackenzie_(trader).
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink SS_Heraklion.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink STUFT.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Saltire.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Scotland.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Singapore.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Sir_William_Mackinnon,_1st_Baronet.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink South_Africa.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Sri_Lanka.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Swallowtail_(flag).
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Tanganyika.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Thailand.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Transport.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Troopship.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink United_Kingdom.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLink Yangon.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "B. I. Company".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "BI Shipping".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "BI".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British India Line".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British India SN Co".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British India Steam Navigation Co".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British India Steam Navigation Company".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British India Steam Navigation Company's".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British India Steam Navigation Fleet".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British India".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British Indian Steam Navigation Co Ltd".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British-India Line".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British-India SN Co".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British-India Steam Navigation Co Ltd".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British-India Steam Navigation Co".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "British-India Steam Navigation Company".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company defunct "1972".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company foundation "1862".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company imageCaption "Souvenir badge from showing the BI house flag: a white swallowtail with a red saltire".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company imageSize "250".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company industry Transport.
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company name "British India Steam Navigation Company".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company parent "P&O".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company products "passenger and cargo shipping".
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company successor P&O_(company).
- British-India_Steam_Navigation_Company type "ship owner and ship operator".
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