Huntscraft after being renamed Clan MacKay
Official No: 136793
Builder: Wm Doxford & Sons Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland
Launched: 3 June 1913
Pennant No: Y 8.129
Into Service: 1919
Out of service: 1919
Fate: 1934 wrecked and beached
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 as a Stores Carrier
Career Data:
3 June 1913 launched by Wm Doxford & Sons Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 455 named Sudmark for Hamburg-Amerika Line, Hamburg
July 1913 completed
29 July 1913 the Newcastle Journal newspaper reported …
17 August 1914 captured by the cruiser HMS BLACK PRINCE in the Red Sea and was taken into Suez while on passage from Yokohama to Hamburg
HMS BLACK PRINCE
September 1914 was requisitioned by the Shipping Controller, London and placed under management of Harris & Dixon Ltd., – name unchanged
22 October 1914 the Hayti Herald newspaper of Hayti, Missouri reported this day that …..
1915 renamed HUNTSCRAFT by the Shipping Controller
1917 placed under management of Union Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd., London – name unchanged
13 July 1919 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Stores Carrier – name unchanged
6 November 1919 returned to her owners – name unchanged
12 November 1919 sailed from Plymouth
26 November 1919 arrived at Louisburg from Plymouth
10 December 1919 sailed St John, New Brunswick for Dublin
25 December 1919 arrived at Dublin from St John, New Brunswick
1920 purchased by Cayzer, Irvine & Co Ltd., Glasgow and renamed CLAN MACKAY
1929 owners became Clan Line Steamers Ltd (Cayzer, Irvine & Co Ltd., Managers) Glasgow – name unchanged
19 October 1934 wrecked on Carpenters Rock, Sierra Leone in position 08°30N 13°18W and beached while on passage from Cairns to Montreal with a cargo of sugar