Official Number: 129151
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd., Low Walker
Pennant No: Y7.213
Launched: 3 August 1910
Into Service: February 1917
Out of service: 30 December 1918
Fate: Mined and sunk
Items of historic interest involving this ship: –
Background Data: One of a group of additional ships requisitioned by the Admiralty in WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA
Career Data:
23 August 1910 by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd., Low Walker as Yard Nr: 826 named Esturia for British Burma Petroleum Co Ltd., London
October 1910 completed
27 May 1913 arrived Sydney, NSW from Adelaide
17 December 1913 sailed Newscastle, NSW for Balik Pappan
11 September 1914 charted by the Royal Australian Navy as an oiler and stores ship for HMAS’s SEAN, HURON and TORRENS
20 December 1915 anchored at Tawao
23 December 1915 at Tawao with HMAS UNA berthed alongside
HMAS UNA
3 August 1917 after working for the Royal Australian Navy requisitioned for Admiralty service as an oiler, name unchanged under management of Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd., London
30 December 1918 returned to her owners but remained on charter to Anglo Saxon
10 August 1919 arrived at Suez from Glasgow
3 January 1920 arrived at Port Said from Port Arthur, Texas
18 May 1920 sailed Port Said for Alexandria
25 May 1921 arrived Granton from Suez via London and Hull
9 August 1923 arrived at Suez from St. Louis dur Rhone
1928 purchased by J G Mavris, D C Eleftheriades, C Chrysostamos, P B Diagon, Zade & B Simonowsky (Marvis Bros., Managers) Piraeus and renamed Loukia
1936 owners now J G Mavris, Firuzan Ali Arsan, G M Castanias & P Diagon-Zade, Syra name unchanged
4 March 1937 mined and sank 2 miles off Cape San Sebastian while on passage from Constanta to Barcelona carrying 3,000 tons of petrol. Twenty three crew members were killed, only one survived. Source Sydeny Morning Herald