Requisitioned Auxiliary – Cairnhill

 

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Official Number:                       133016 

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Builder:                                   Archibald McMillan & Son, Dockyard, Dumbarton

Pennant No:                            Y3. ???

Signal Letters:                         HVJL

Launched:                               24 January 1912

Into Service:                            25 October 1914

Out of service:                         17 April 1917

Fate:                                      Captured and sunk with explosives  17 April 1917

 

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Background Data:  One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA

Career Data:

 

24 January 1912  launched by Archibald McMillan & Son, Dockyard, Dumbarton as Yard Nr: 442 named CAIRNHILL for Macbeth & Co Ltd (George & William MacBeth, Managers), Glasgow

26 January 1912 the Scotsman newspaper reported …

 

26 1 1912 The Scotsman Cairnhill

 

20 February 1912  Register opened at Glasgow as Nr 18/1912 in the Register Book

February 1912 completed

28 February 1912 sailed from Greenock for New York

17 March 1912 passed Nantucket

18 March 1912 arrived at New York

20 April 1912 sailed from New York

25 October 1914 requisitioned for service as a Collier until 25 November 1914

13 January 1915 served as a Collier until 11 April 1916

17 April 1917 captured by German U-Boat U-55 (Kptlt. Wilhelm Werner) and sunk with explosives in the Atlantic 160 miles NW of Fastnet Rock in position 52°09N 13°16W when on passage from New York to Le Havre carrying general cargo