Requisitioned Auxiliary – Cairnross

 

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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 –

 

27 11 1912 Lloyds List Cairnross

 

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

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

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

HMS GLASGOW

 

28 February 1915 at Isthmus Bay alongside HMS KENT and supplied 970 tons of bunker coal

 

HMS KENT

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

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