M/S CALIFORNIA

Built 1913 by Akt. Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen # 255 for Det Forenede Dampskibs Selskab, Copenhagen
GRT 4597

1940 Arrived Pernambuco 24.4.40 and laid up, taken over at Rio de Janeiro 26. Feb
1942 PIRALOIDE Lloyd Brasileiro, Rio de Janeiro
1945 CALIFORNIA Det Forenede Dampskibs Selskab, Copenhagen
1951 Major conversion at Kieler Howaldtswerke, Kiel
1959 ARGOCAL Argonaut Shipping & Trading Co., Ltd., London (for delivery)
1959 Arrived at Hong Kong August 29. for demolition.

This vessel was the seventh motor vessel built around a year after Selandia and she sailed with the original engines till demolition.

Photo Taken at Copenhagen in the beginning of 1961