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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
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:
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 …
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