Requisitioned Auxiliary – Angora

 

Angora

 

Official No:                            129535

Builder:                        Wm Denny & Bros., Dumbarton

Launched:                    1 December 1910

Into Service:                 September 1914

Pennant No:                 N.40 / N.04

Signal Letters:                       HSDJ

Out of service:              15 November 1919

Fate:                             30 July 1937 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

 

Career Data:

 

5 January 1910 ordered

1 December 1910 launched by  Wm Denny & Bros., Dumbarton as Yard Nr: 925 named Angora for British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., London

3 December 1910 Lloyds List newspaper reported …

 

3 12 1910 Lloyds List Angora

 

20 February 1911 completed at a cost of £117,735 as a cargo/passenger vessel for her Owners’ Calcutta – Rangoon coastal service. Carried 50 x 1st Class and 50 2nd Class passengers

25 February 1911 while on passage from the River Clyde to Calcutta passed Gibraltar this day

17 May 1911 in the Bay of Bengal 1st Mate James Donnelly discharged dead from heart failure

September 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Transport – name unchanged and carried 1,200 Ghurka’s plus 100 mules from Bombay to Marseilles. Her accommodation was described as ‘overcrowded’

19 February 1915 at 37.50N 9.26W Carpenter H Stanner discharged dead from natural causes

24 February 1915 arrived at London from Colombo. Captain Hugh P Learmont was the Master

27 February 1915 commissioned as an Auxiliary Mine Layer and carried 320 mines being mostly deployed in the North Sea. 

10 September 1915 sailed from Immingham with HMS’s ORVIETO and PRINCESS MARGARET to lay a minefield in accordance with Admiralty Instructions

17 September 1915 at Sheerness berthed on No 8 Buoy

2 October 1915 Engineer Commander Edward C S Bayley RNR appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

8 October 1915 Trimmer Dennis Murray MMR 797586 discharged dead. He is buried in Sheerness Cemetery in grave PP.70

19 March 1916 off Mudros

24 March 1916 arrived at Port Mudros

30 April 1916 at Port Mudros – RC Mass celebrated onboard

7 May 1916 at Port Mudros – RC Mass celebrated onboard

5 February 1917 sailed from Gibraltar

5 October 1917 Chief Armourer Albert John Hasemore RN awarded the Distinguished Service Medal – Gazetted this day

 DSM Ch Arm. HASEMORE

Chief Armourer Albert J Hasemore RN’s Distinguished Service Medal

 

21 March 1918 at Rosyth

30 March 1918 sailed Rosyth with HMS PRINCESS MARGARET

13 April 1918 sailed Rosyth with HMS PRINCESS MARGARET and escorted by destroyers

16 April 1918 berthed at Rosyth

7 May 1918 sailed Rosyth with HMS PRINCESS MARGARET

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HMS PRINCESS MARGARET

10 May 1918 arrived at Rosyth with HMS AMPHITRITE

16 May 1918 sailed Rosyth with HMS AMPHITRITE and 8 destroyers

18 May 1918 arrived Rosyth with HMS’s AMPHITRITE, GLORIOUS and FURIOUS

30 May 1918 Captain Horace W Longen CMG Royal Navy appointed as Commanding Officer

9 June 1918 berthed at Rosyth

16 June 1918 sailed Rosyth with HMS’s AMPHITRITE, PRINCESS MARGARET and LONDON

10 August 1918 arrived at Rosyth with HMS PRINCESS MARGARET and 4th LCS

20 August 1918 arrived at Rosyth with HMS’s AMPHITRITE, BELLONA, ORION and CONQUEROR

8 September 1918 arrived at Rosyth with HMS’s AMPHITRITE and LONDON

22 September 1918 arrived at Rosyth with HMS’s AMPHITRITE, PRINCESS MARGARET and LONDON

7 December 1918 anchored in Copenhagen Roads with HMS’s PRINCESS MARGARET, COVENTRY, CENTAUR and CALYPSO

8 December 1918 joined HMS’s CARADOC and CARDIFF on passage from Copenhagen to Libau

10 December 1918 arrived at Libau with HMS PRINCESS MARGARET

12 December 1918 arrived at Reval with HMS PRINCESS MARGARET

13 December 1918 entered the inner harbour at Reval

27 December 1918 at Libau with HMS CARDIFF berthed alongside

31 December 1918 at Libau with HMS CARADOC berthed alongside 

15 November 1919 decommissioned, refitted and returned to her owners – her name reverted to Angora

24 January 1920 sailed London to Bombay with 103 passengers. Captain Jas Riddock was the Master

14 October 1920 ran aground at Oolobaria, Hooghly but was refloated with minor damage

8 November 1920 at 19.52N 89.34E passenger Charles Harding discharged dead from suspected cholera and passenger Sagur Boodhy discharged dead from natural causes

5 June 1924 at 16.58N 92.32E passenger J J Michael discharged dead from natural causes

1932 laid up at Calcutta

 30 July 1937 arrived for demolition by Japanese ship breakers after sale, along with her sister ship Arankola, for £42,500