Borda (ship, 1914)
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The Borda was a passenger ship put into service in 1914 by the British shipping company Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O), which was used in the emigrant traffic from Great Britain to Australia . During the First World War the ship served as a troop transport and after the war it was again active in regular passenger traffic. In 1930 the Borda was sold to Japan for demolition.
The ship
In 1910 P&O bought the shares in the British shipping company Blue Anchor Line ( London ), which had not recovered from the loss of its passenger ship Waratah the year before. P&O took over the Blue Anchor Line's Australian service and renamed it the P&O Branch Line. The Caird & Company shipyard in Greenock , Scotland , immediately placed orders for five new sister ships for the new emigrant traffic to Australia.
The 11,120 GRT Ballarat was the first of these five ships to be completed in 1911 . It was followed by the Beltana (11,120 GRT) in 1912 , the Benalla (11,118 GRT) and the Berrima (11,137 GRT) in 1913, and the last in 1914 was the Borda (11,136 GRT), whose order was placed with the shipyard on June 1, 1912. The construction costs of the Borda alone amounted to 208,977 pounds sterling ( in terms of monetary value at the time ).
The 152.4 meter long steamship Borda had a chimney, two masts and two propellers and was powered by two four-cylinder quadruple expansion steam engines from the shipyard, which developed 9,000 PSi and allowed a speed of 14 knots . The ship had space for 1,100 third class passengers. Since the Borda, like its sister ships, was intended for pure emigration traffic, there was no first and second class.
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On December 17, 1913, the ship was launched at Caird & Company. The test drives took place on March 27, 1914. The handover to P&O took place on the same day. The maiden voyage took place the following April on the usual route from London via Cape Town to Melbourne and Sydney . The First World War broke out just a few months after it was put into service . From August 1914, the passenger steamer was in service under the tactical identification A30 as a troop transport and carried Australian troops. In 1917 the ship went to the Shipping Controller in London. In 1920 the Borda was returned to its shipping company and reintegrated into the Australian service.
In 1928 the Borda was finally launched and sold in August 1930 for 28,850 pounds sterling to Tokai Shoji Kabushiki Kaisha in Japan for scrapping in Kobe .