Official Number: N/R
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend
Pennant No:
Launched: 12 March 1929
Into Service: WW2
Out of service: WW2
Fate: 1965 broken up
Items of historic interest involving this ship: –
Background Data: One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW2 to augment the ships of the RFA
Career Data:
12 March 1929 launched by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend as Yard Nr: 1361
named EGERO for Skelbreds Rederi A/S (O.A.T. Skjelbred, Manager) Kristiansand.
May 1929 completed
12 January 1930 radioed she was 800 miles SW of Lands End
30 July 1932 arrived at Liverpool
4 November 1933 sailed from Curaçao for Gibraltar
30 March 1935 passed the Lizard sailing west
22 September 1935 passed Gibraltar sailing west bound
6 May 1938 passed Gibraltar sailing west bound
8 May 1939 passed St Catherines Point sailing east bound
20 May 1939 sailed from Falmouth
22 June 1939 arrived at Stanlow
1939 managers became Kr, Knudsen, Kristiansand – name unchanged
27 March 1940 sailed Port Said independently to Gibraltar arriving on 4 April 1940
4 April 1940 sailed Gibraltar independently to Queenstown arriving on 10 April 1940
9 April 1940 when on passage to Queenstown from Gibraltar War broke out in Norway
13 April 1940 sailed Queenstown independently to Falmouth Bay arriving the next day
21 April 1940 sailed Falmouth Bay independently to Liverpool arriving 23 April 1940
2 May 1940 sailed Liverpool in convoy OB140 which formed into convoy OB28 on 5 May 1940 to Milford Haven arriving the next day
7 May 1940 sailed Milford Haven independently to Scapa Flow arriving 9 May 1940
15 May 1940 sailed Scapa Flow escorted as far as Cape Wrath by HMS’s Cape
WARWICK and CAPE PORTLAND and then independently to Trinidad arriving 31 May 1940
31 May 1940 sailed Trinidad independently to Aruba arriving 3 June 1940
5 June 1940 sailed Aruba independently to Las Palmas arriving 20 June 1940
24 June 1940 Las Palmas independently to Durban arriving 17 July 1940
10 August 1940 sailed Durban independently to Abadan
20 August 1940 independently to Trincomalee arriving 11 September 1940
17 September 1940 sailed Trincomalee independently to Abadan
24 September 1940 sailed Abadan returning to that port on 28 September 1940 sailing again to Aden arriving 8 October 1940
19 October 1940 sailed Aden joining in escorted convoy BN7 to Suez arriving 26 October 1940
8 November 1940 sailed Port Said independently to Alexandria arriving the next day
17 November 1940 sailed Alexandria independently to Haifa arriving the next day
23 November 1940 sailed Haifa independently to Alexandria arriving 25 November 1940
4 December 1940 sailed Alexandria independently to Haifa arriving the next day
11 January 1941 sailed Haifa independently to Port Said arriving the next day
14 January 1941 sailed Port Said in convoy AN12 to Suda Bay, Crete arriving 17 January 1940
5 March 1941 sailed Suda Bay joining convoy AS16/1 to Haifa arriving 9 March 1941
22 March 1941 sailed Haifa independently to Alexandria arriving 24 March 1941
30 March 1941 sailed Alexandria independently to Haifa (?)
26 April 1941 sailed Haifa independently to Alexandria arriving 28 April 1941
30 April 1941 sailed Alexandria independently to Haifa arriving 2 May 1941
6 May 1941 sailed Haifa independently to Alexandria arriving 8 May 1941
15 May 1941 sailed Alexandria independently to Haifa arriving 17 May 1941
24 May 1941 sailed Haifa independently to Alexandria arriving 26 May 1941
28 May 1941 sailed Alexandria independently to Port Said
3 June 1941 sailed Suez independently to Aden arriving 9 June 1941
9 June 1941 sailed Aden independently to Abadan arriving 19 June 1941
25 June 1941 sailed Abadan independently to Aden arriving 9 July 1941
1 October 1942 on passage from Fremantle, W. Australia to Diego Garcia escorted by HMAS BURNIE arriving 8 October 1942
HMAS BURNIE
8 October 1942 at Diego Garcia with HMAS BURNIE alongside being refuelled – she received 130 tons of FFO
9 October 1942 sailed Diego Garcia for Abadan arriving 20 October 1942
22 October 1942 sailed Abadan independently to Bandar Abbas
30 October 1942 sailed Banadar Abbas in convoy PA8 and then independently to Simontown, South Africa
5 December 1942 sailed Simontown in convoy CA1 until dispersal on 7 December 1942 thence independently to Abadan arriving 29 December 1942
31 August 1944 sailed New York in convoy HX306 to Loch Ewe. In this convoy with six other tankers served as an Escort Oiler. Also carried spare depth charges for the Escorts
1958 purchased by Misr Tankers Hassan Egyptian Ezzat & Co, Alexandria and renamed BATAL EL ESTEKLAL
27 August 1965 arrived for demolition in Egypt