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Official Number: 133522
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Builder: Wm. Doxford & Sons Ltd, Pallion Yard, Sunderland
Pennant No: Y 3.436
Launched: 26 November 1912
Into Service: 7 November 1914
Out of service: 28 May 1918
Fate: 28 May 1918 torpedoed and sunk
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:
26 November 1912 launched by Wm. Doxford & Sons Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 452 named CAIRNROSS for Cairn Line of Steamers Ltd (Cairns, Noble & Co Ltd, Managers) Newcastle-upon-Tyne
27 November 1912 Lloyds List newspaper reported –
January 1913 completed
22 March 1913 passed Perim when on passage to Calcutta
5 April 1913 arrived at Calcutta
1 November 1913 sailed from Newport, Monmouth for Sydney, Cape Breton
19 November 1913 arrived at Montreal
28 November 1913 sailed from Montreal for Cape Town
25 February 1914 spoke to HMS ISIS
HMS ISIS
15 June 1914 arrived at the River Wear
26 June 1914 passed Ushant
7 November 1914 – 26 April 1915 requisitioned for service as a collier
5 February 1915 sailed from the Falkland Island escorted by HMS BRISTOL
HMS BRISTOL
12 February 1915 sailed from Monte Video escorted by HMS BRISTOL for anchoring in Rio de la Plata
25 February 1915 at Port Tamar alongside HMS BRISTOL and supplied 842 tons of bunker coal
26 February 1915 at Isthmus Bay alongside HMS GLASGOW and supplied 900 tons of bunker coal
HMS GLASGOW
28 February 1915 at Isthmus Bay alongside HMS KENT and supplied 970 tons of bunker coal
HMS KENT
18 March 1915 & 19 March 1915 at Vallenar Roads alongside HMS GLASGOW and supplied 850 tons of bunker coal
27 April 1915 – 29 July 1915 served as a Transport carrying sugar
30 July 15 – 23 October 1915 served as a collier
11 December 1915 when on passed from Monteal to Leith, Scotland stopped and boarded by HMS CHANGUINOLA
17 March 1916 stopped and was boarded by HMS GLOUCESTERSHIRE
HMS GLOUCESTERSHIRE
?? – 5 April16 served as a collier
19June 1916 served as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying hay and oats
10 August 1916 temporarily released
10 October 1916 – 2 December 1916 served as above
3 December 1916 – 28 January 1917 served as a collier
29 January 1917 – 22 April 1917 served as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying hay and oats from South America
23 April 1917 – 26 May 1917 served as a collier and was then transferred to the Liner Section
9 May 1917 Fireman Thomas Davis discharged dead – died of pneumonia in hospital at Gibraltar
27 May 1917 with the Liner Section until ……
28 May 1918 torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-62 (Kptlt. Ernst Hashagen) in the Atlantic 110 miles NNW of Flores, Azores on passage from Newcastle to Buenos Aires carrying coal
Notes:
Was the 2nd of 3 ships to bear this name in the Cairn Line fleet