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Official Number: 129786
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Builder: Wm. Doxford & Sons Ltd, Pallion Yard, Sunderland
Pennant No: Y 7.273
Launched: 25 October 1911
Into Service: 27 August 1914
Out of service: 16 April 1917
Fate: Sunk 16 April 1917
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:
25 October 1911 launched by Wm. Doxford & Sons Ltd, Pallion Yard, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 432 named CAIRNDHU for Cairn Line of Steamships Ltd (Cairns, Noble & Co Ltd, Managers) Newcastle-upon-Tyne
December 1911 completed. Sister to CAIRNGOWAN
22 August 1914 challenged by HMS VINDICTIVE
HMS VINDICTIVE
27 August 1914 to 18 June 1915 requisitioned for service as a collier
18 February 1915 and 19 February 1915 at Kibondi alongside HMS PYRAMUS supplying her with 410 tons of bunker coal
HMS PYRAMUS
25 February 1915 at Zanzibar alongside HMS HYACINTH supplying her with 340 tons of bunker coal
HMS HYACINTH
10 March 1915 anchored off Niororo Island
13 March 1915 at Zanzibar alongside HMS HYACINTH supplying her with 685 tons of bunker coal
24 March 1915 arrived at Port Reitz, Mombassa
8 October 1915 at 58°58N 11°53W intercepted by HMS MONTAGUE
17 March 1916 at 58°02N 15°45W when on passage from Portland, Maine to Leith stopped and boarded by HMS GLOUCESTERSHIRE
HMS GLOUCESTERSHIRE
16 May 1916 at 58°38N 13°14W stopped and boarded by HMS COLUMBELLA – allowed to proceed
3 July 1916 at approximately 58°05N 11°04W stopped and boarded by HMS VICTORIAN – allowed to proceed
7 October 1916 stopped and boarded by HMS AVENGER – ordered to Kirkwall
30 October 1916 intercepted by HMS PATIA
21 March 1917 at 59°21N 12°46W when on passage from Portland, Maine to Leith stopped and boarded by HMS HILARY
3 April 1917 transferred to the Liner Section until ……
16April 1917 torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-40 (Oblt. Hans Howaldt) in the English Channel 25 miles west of Beachy Head when on passage from the River Tyne to Gibraltar carrying coal with the loss of 11 lives, Those killed were –
Fireman J Caldwell buried in Portsmouth Milton Cemetery
Fireman J Cutter buried in South Shields (Harton) Cemetery
Fireman John Dacey remembered with pride on the Tower Hill Merchant Navy memorial
Apprentice John Robert Davison remembered with pride on the Tower Hill Merchant Navy memorial
Fireman Robert Dickson buried in South Leith Parish Cemetery
Able Seaman F Hall buried in Highgate Cemetery, North London
Carpenter T Keefe remembered with pride on the Tower Hill Merchant Navy memorial
Leading Seaman Norman Macdonald RNR remembered with pride on the Chatham Navy memorial
Third Engineer Officer Joseph Harry Mallaby remembered with pride on the Tower Hill Merchant Navy memorial
Fireman D Mulvain buried in Portsmouth Milton Cemetery
First Engineer Louis Ormston Toward remembered with pride on the Tower Hill Merchant Navy memorial
Notes: was the 2nd of 4 ships to bear this name in the Cairn Line fleet.