Passenger/cargo ship “Santhia: at anchor off Singapore, May 1966
Owner: British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., London
Port of registry: London
Builder: Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Whiteinch, Glasgow
Gross tons: 8,908
Deadweight: 8,590
Length overall: 146.09 m
Max. draft: 8.046m
Engines 2 x 4-cylinder Doxford diesels, 5,900 b.h.p.. by builders; twin screw
Speed: 14 knots
Completed November 1950; 161 passengers in cabins & 1,619 deck. Initially employed on Calcutta-Japan service via Penang, Singapore & Hong Kong
Transferred to Bombay-Persian Gulf service 1962; passenger accommodation reorganised (P&O website gives new capacity as 141 but this must be an error)
Sold November 1966 to Shipping Corporation of India, renamed “State of Haryana”; employed on Bombay-East Africa service.
Transferred 1974 to Andaman Islands service under name of “Nancowry”; reverted to “State of Haryana” in 1976 (not to be confused with the company's ex-B.I. ship “Karanja” which took over the name “Nancowry” in 1976 until scrapped in 1989)
Sold January 1977 for scrapping at Bombay