MV Sirdhana was a motor ship that was launched in England in 1947, worked regular routes in the Indian Ocean and the Far East, and was scrapped in Taiwan in 1972.
Barclay, Curle and Company at Whiteinch, Glasgow built Sangola, launching her on 23 December 1946 and delivering her on 6 June 1947.
[6][7] Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Low Walker built her sister ship Sirdhana, launching her on 8 January and delivering her on 9 December.
[8] As built, Sirdhana's navigation equipment included wireless direction finding, and an echo sounding device.
[5] On 26 November 1960 the troopship USS General William Mitchell accidentally rammed Sirdhana amidships at the inner breakwater in the Port of Yokohama.
In 1962 BI transferred Sangola and Sirdhana to its route between Bombay and Basra,[14] which was still busy carrying migrant workers between the Indian subcontinent and the Persian Gulf.
[15] The regular ports of call on this route were Karachi, Pasni, Gwadur, Muscat, Bandar Abbas, Sharjah, Dubai, Umm Said, Bahrain, Bushehr, Kuwait, Abadan, and Khorramshahr.
[8] When she joined the route in 1961, Dubai had no port deep enough for BI's ships to dock alongside a quay.
[8] On 3 August 1972 BI sold Sirdhana for scrap to Nan Feng Steel Enterprise Co Ltd in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.