Previous name:
Subsequent name: Carmania Silvania
Official Number: 110636
Pennant No: Y9.16
Laid down:
Builder: Scott & Company, Greenock
Launched: 7 December 1899
Into Service: August 1914
Out of service: December 1914
Fate: Broken up
Items of historic interest involving this ship: –
Background Data: One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA
7 December 1899 launched by Scott & Co, Greenock as Yard Nr 359 named ALCINOUS for Ocean S.S. Co Ltd (Alfred Holt & Co, Managers) Liverpool
9 December 1899 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …
February 1900 completed
6 April 1901 grounded while on passage from China to Amsterdam in thick fog at East Bay, Dungeness. Refloated without assistance after 5½ hours. Suffered no damage
1 February 1902 sailed Portland, Victoria for Glasgow via the Suez Canal
25 November 1903 sailed Brisbane. Captain Pulford was the Master
17 May 1904 at Newcastle, NSW Adolf WIlliam Landgraff, a Steward on the ship was arrested by Police for shooting at Captain Roderick MacCormaig, the ships Master, with intent to cause greivous bodily harm. He appeared before the Police Court and was committed for trial at the next Quater Sessions
24 May 1904 Chief Officer Richard Bond appeared before Newcastle, NSW, Police Court charged with assaulting three members of the crew. He pleaded Guilty and was fined in two cases £5 and in the third £3 with costs in each case
19 October 1905 berthed at Tanjong Pagar
3 October 1908 at Yokohama, Japan Fireman William Campbell drowned – discharged dead.
22 September 1909 sailed Sydney, NSW with a cargo of wool. Captain D Davies was the Master
7 September 1910 berthed at London from Yokohama, Japan
26 January 1912 sailed Liverpool for Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama. The Master was Captain J Riepenhausen
1 July 1912 sailed Liverpool for St Swettenham, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Hankon. The Master was Captain A F Gilmour
5 April 1913 sailed Glasgow
20 May 1913 arrived at Port Adelaide
13 June 1913 sailed Brisbane
21 August 1913 arrived at Antwerp from Port Pirie
2 February 1914 sailed Greenock for Yohohama via Liverpool
August 1914 to December 1914 hired by the Admiralty as a Store Carrier No 16 for the RFA
3 August 1914 Lieutenant H Brown RNR appointed as Commanding Officer and Engineer A D Abbott RNR appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
3 August 1914 commissioned
18 August 1914 sailed from Devonport to Scapa Flow arriving on 23 August 1914
24 August 1914 sailed Scapa Flow to Lerwick arriving the same day
27 August 1914 sailed Lerwick to Scapa Flow
28 August 1914 sailed Scapa Flow to Cromarty to discharge her cargo of ammunition
10 September 1914 at Cromarty alongside HMS ENDYMION supplying 9.2″ Lyddite and other explosives
HMS ENDYMION
14 October 1914 at Cromarty alonside HMS CRESCENT supplying stores
HMS CRESCENT
21 October 1914 sailed Cromarty to Basta Voe, Lerwick Islands arriving on the same day
27 October 1914 at Busta Voe supplied a new bower anchor to HMS CRESCENT
28 October 1914 at Busta Voe alongside HMS CRESCENT supplying naval stores
29 October 1914 sailed Busta Voe to Lerwick and returned the same day
20 November 1914 sailed Busta Voe to to Scapa Flow arriving the next day
8 October 1915 sailed Yokohama for Liverpool
22 November 1915 at sea Fireman Kum Ng discharged dead – he had signed on at Honk Kong on 25 February 1915
7 December 1915 berthed at Gravesend
8 January 1916 at Sea Surgeon Frank E Kendall discharged dead – believed heart failure
10 February 1916 arrived at Singapore from Liverpool
2 December 1917 arrived at a US east coast port
31 March 1918 torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine UB57 (Oberleutnant z. S. Johannes Lohs) 5 miles N20°W of Fairlight Church but managed to reach port.
2 September 1918 drove off an attacking submarine by means of accurate gunfire
2 October 1918 berthed at Liverpool from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
12 January 1919 berthed at New York
30 January 1919 sailed New York
14 February 1919 berthed at Liverpool from New York
6 March 1919 sailed Liverpool to Singapore and Java. The Master was Captain W McHutcheon
6 June 1919 at Suez from Batavia for London
20 June 1919 berthed at Tilbury, London with 26 passengers
9 July 1919 sailed London to New York with 25 passengers
7 August 1919 sailed New York via the Panama Canal to Yokohama – Kobe and Shanghai
5 September 1919 sailed Honolulu for Yokohama
4 October 1919 berthed at Shanghai from Yokohama
1 December 1919 berthed at Liverpool from Japan and China with 23 passengers and 1 DBS
4 January 1920 sailed Liverpool with 28 passengers for Singapore and Batavia. Captain W McHutcheon was Master
22 April 1920 anchored at Plymouth from Batavia and Port Said with 16 passengers
7 June 1920 sailed Liverpool for China. The Master was Captain J S Corfe
6 July 1920 berthed at Singapore from Liverpool
9 July 1920 sailed Singapore for Shanghai
2 September 1920 sailed Singapore for Le Harve and Liverpool
15 October 1920 berthed at Liverpool
7 November 1920 sailed Liverpool to China. The Master was Captain T H Collister
3 January 1921 sailed Shanghai for Hong Kong
15 April 1921 sailed Liverpool for Java. The Master was Captain David Clark
3 August 1921 arrived at Gravesend from Batavia for the Royal Albert Dock
17 December 1921 sailed Brisbane for Dunkirk, Hull and Antwerp via Suez Canal
30 July 1922 berthed at Gibraltar and sailed the same day
11 August 1922 berthed at Boston, Mass. USA from Gibraltar
17 October 1922 arrived at Port Said
1 September 1925 at East Ham Police Court, London Low Choi, a seaman from the ship, pleaded Guilty to smuggling ¾ lb of opium which had been discovered by a Customs rummage crew hidden onboard. He was fined £10 or 31 days imprisonment and recommended for deportation.
1925 purchased by Ditta L Pittaluga Vapori, Genoa and renamed CARMANIA
1928 renamed SILVANIA by her owners
1932 broken up at Genoa
Notes:
1. Was one of a class of nine vessels which were the first to exceed 6000 tons for the original owners