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Official Number: 128276
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Builder: Hamilton & Co, Glen Yard, Port Glasgow
Launched: 19 April 1909
Pennant No: Y 3.1344
Into Service: 18 November 1916
Out of service: 6 March 1917
Fate: Torpedoed & sunk 6 March 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:
19 April 1909 launched by Wm. Hamilton & Co, Glen Yard, Port Glasgow as Yard Nr: 204 named CALDERGROVE for Clutha Shipping Co Ltd., (John Hardie & Co, Managers) Glasgow
20 April 1909 the Scotsman newspaper reported –
May 1909 completed
3 June 1909 the Scotsman newspaper reported –
26 June 1909 arrived at the River Plate
17 September 1909 arrived at Newcastle, NSW
27 February 1910 sailed Bunbury, Western Australia for Las Palmas
4 April 1910 arrived at Las Palmas sailing the same day
1 September 1910 arrived at Sydney. NSW
9 September 1910 cleared Sydney, NSW with a cargo of 73,000 bags of wheat
26 August 1911 arrived at Suez from Aden
21 October 1914 sailed New York for New Zealand with a cargo of case oil
9 November 1914 entered the Pacific Ocean having transitted the Panama Canal
14 December 1914 arrived at Auckland, New Zealand
16 July 1915 the Daily Commercial News & Shipping List newspaper, published in Sydney, NSW reported that …
7 September 1915 arrived at Tacoma
12 July 1916 arrived at Sydney, NSW
20 July 1`916 cleared Stdney, NSW for the UK
18 November 1916 requisitioned for service as a Collier until 3 January 1917
4 January 1917 re-deployed as a transport carrying sugar from Cuba until …
6 March 1917 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-44 (Kptlt. Paul Wagenführ) in the Atlantic 200 miles WNW of Fastnet Rock in position 51°30 N 14°51 W while on passage Havana, Cuba to Queenstown, Ireland carrying sugar with the loss of 19 lives including that of her Master