My family and I came out to Australia from India as passengers on the cargo vessel Canara MV (3)
She initially carried 24 passengers which was reduced to 12 in 1947 (the year I was born) and to 9 later...not sure when. The Mackenzie clan made up nearly half the passenger list!
She was built by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow and owned and operated by the British India Steam Navigation Company (UK).
The Canara was the third ship to carry the name and is named after a costal district stretching from Goa to Cochin, Now called Kanara, in the states of both Karnataka and Kerala:
Canara (1) 1874 1904 scrapped at Bombay. 1,903
Canara (2) 1905 1932 scrapped in Italy. 6,012
Canara (3) 1942 1968 scrapped in Taiwan. 7,024
She served from August 1942 until March 1946 in the liner division, with time spent during 1943 as a mechanical transport ship. In 1949 the Canara had a refit in Melbourne where she was fitted with refrigerated capacity much in demand on the Australia-India-Persian Gulf service. Apart from a collision in Bombay 1953 she had a remarkably uneventful career especially considering her service 1942-1945. Her end came after being sold to Jui Cheng Co. Ltd. Of Taiwan and she was broken up on July 1968.
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