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Official Number: 120589
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Builder: Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd., Jarrow
Launched: 7 June 1905
Pennant No: B 8160 / Y3.1745
Into Service: 20 March 1917
Out of service: 1918
Fate: 27 April 1945 mined & 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:
7 June 1905 launched by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne as Yard Nr: 745 as Kaiping for Chinese Engineering & Mining Co Ltd., ( A W Berry, Manager), London
May 1905 completed
25 December 1914 sailed Shatzukao Bay with the 36 Sikh Regiment reaching Hong Kong on 30 December 1914
20 March 1917 requisitioned for service as an Expeditionary Force Transport – name unchanged – until 26 April 1917
27 April 1917 re-deployed as a Transport carrying wheat from the United States until 3 September 1917
4 September 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 13 November 1917
14 November 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying (1) grain from India & (2) barley from Algiers / Salonika
2 January 1919 arrived at Liverpool from Palermo
31 March 1919 sailed Liverpool for Newport and China
25 July 1927 arrived at Chingwangtao having grounded at Yungching. Double bottom balast tanks buckled in several places bottom dry with no sign of leaking. Surveyor advised it was not necessary to enter dry doc. Ship sailed to Shanghai with a full cargo
27 December 1941 bombed and sunk by a Japanese air strike in Manila Bay. Was subsquently raised by Japanese sailors and placed in the service of the Japanese Government being renamed Kaiho Maru the following year
27 April 1945 struck a mine laid by the US Airforce at the western end of the Shimonoseki Strait a month earlier and sank in position 34.00N 130.50E