The Kampala was built under construction number 611 by Alexander Stephen & Sons in Glasgow and launched on December 11, 1946. After the handover to the British India Navigation Company on August 29, 1947, the ship was put into service in September 1947 in liner service to Durban and Bombay .
In 1948 the Karanja, an identical sister ship of the Kampala , was put into service. Both ships were based on pre-war ship designs and, in addition to liner services to South Africa and India, were also used for occasional trips to Karachi and Mahé before an airport was built there in 1971 and the operation of the ship was no longer profitable.
In the same year the Kampala was retired after 24 years of service and sold to Kaohsiung , Taiwan for scrapping , where it arrived on July 24, 1971. Her younger sister ship Karanja stayed in service until 1976.
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