Requisitioned Auxiliary – Iere

Official Number:                      160644  

Pennant No:                            B528

Builder:                                   Smith’s Dock Co Ltd., South Bank, Middlesborough

Launched:                               12 December 1928

Into Service:                            WW2

Out of service:                         WW2

Fate:                                      1996 deleted from the Register – existence in doubt

 

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 December 1928 launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd., South Bank, Middlesborough as Yard Nr: 855 named Iere for Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd., London

March 1929 completed

WW2 requisition for Admiralty service as a small oiler and served with the British Pacific Fleet Train – hence the B Pennant Number

9 January 1944 berthed at Milford Haven

27 March 1945 sailed in convoy OS119/KMS93 reforming on 4 April 1945 as convoy KMS93G to Gibraltar arriving 6 April 1945 thence to Port Said arriving 21 April 1945

18 May 1945 sailed Colombo to Darwin arriving 7 June 1945

13 June 1945 arrived at Port Moreseby

18 June 1945 arrived Manus, Admiralty Islands

30 June 1945 at Manus Naval Base, Admiralty Islands

31 July 1945 at Manus Naval Base, Admiralty Islands

19 September 1945 arrived at Hong Kong

10 November 1945 Chief Steward James Curry discharged dead. He was cremated at Conventry (Canley) Crematorium

1952 converted into a cargo ship – name unchanged

1959 purchased by J F S M Hernandez and renamed Los Sauces

1996 deleted from the Registers – existence in doubt