Requisitioned Auxiliary – Chinkoa

 Chinkoa_xx

Copyright State Library of New South Wales acknowledged

 

 

Chinkoa_xx

Copyright State Library of New South Wales acknowledged

 

Official Number:                    128943

Pennant No:                         Y 9.3

Builder:                                William Gray, West Hartlepool

Launched:                            4 July 1913

 

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

 

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

 

4 July 1913 launched by Wm Gray & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool as Yard nr 827 named  ARABISTAN for F.C. Strick & Co, Swansea

August 1913 completed renamed CHINKOA

31 July 1914 chased by a submarine off the River Tagus, Portugal – escaped

3 August 1914 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as a Stores Carrier, name unchanged

August 1914 Lieutenant Morris G Williams RNR appointed as Commanding Officer and Engineer Ernest F Taylor RNR appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

19 December 1914 returned to her owners

31 July 1915 off the mouth of the Tagus River, Portugal chased by a submarine but escaped

22 January 1918 missed by a torpedo in the English Channel

18 June 1923 landed a member of the crew with bubonic plague at Rangoon, Burma

8 July 1923 on arrival at Freemantle the ship was placed in quaranteen due to the case of bubonic plague (above)

5 April 1925 sailed Calcutta for Australian ports

16 October 1925 sailed Singapore for Freemantle

2 July 1926 sailed Calcutta

26 February 1934 sailed Hobart, Tasmania for Adelaide

23 January 1937 Purchased for £20,000 by Nailsea Steamship Co (B.R. Management Co Ltd, Managers) Cardiff and renamed NAILSEA TOWER

February 1937 sold to the breakers for £12,000

28 November 1937 broken up at Dalmuir