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Official Number: 106419
Laid down:
Builder: J.L. Thompson & Sons Ltd, North Sands, Sunderland
Pennant No: Y3.373
Launched: 1897
Into Service: 1916
Out of service: 1917
Fate: torpedoed and sunk
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
Career Data:
13 July 1897 launched by J L Thompson & Sons Ltd., North Sands, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 348 named Indianic for Atlantic Steam Shipping Co Ltd., (T G Greenwell, Manager), Sunderland
20 July 1897 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …
September 1897 completed
1906 purchased by Steamship “Irthington” Co Ltd. (Maclay & McIntye, Managers) Glasgow and renamed Irthington
23 January 1907 when on passage from St Lucia to Pensacola tail end shaft broke and propellor lost. Towed into Key West by British Steamer Gloxinia
18 April 1907 sailed Cardiff for Pernambuco
9 May 1907 arrived at Pernambuco
30 October 1914 in the North sea checked by HMS CRESCENT and allowed to proceed
HMS CRESCENT
1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged
23 September 1917 torpedoed and sunk by the German Submarine UC53 (Kurt Albrecht) in the Mediterranean 3 miles ENE Cape Vaticano, Gulf of Gioja while on passage from Napes to Messina in ballast
Note
- her pennant Nr: had previously been allocated to ss Karma which had been sunk