Official Number:                      124116  

Laid down:

Builder:                                   Scotts SB Co, Greenock

Launched:                               27 November 1907

Into Service:                            10 December 1914

Out of service:                         October 1915

Fate:                                       Sunk during World War 2

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:

27 November 1907 launched by Scotts SB Co, Greenock as Yard Nr 422 named MANCO for Iquitos SS Co Ltd (Booth SS Co Ltd, Managers) Liverpool.

February 1908 completed

3 March 1908 sailed Gravesend for Iquitos, Peru

16 May 1908 arrived Lisbon from Liverpool

20 December 1908 at Iquitos, Peru Fireman Charles Conroy discharged dead – cause of death not stated in Register of Seamans Deaths

7 January 1909 at 3.46N 43.22W passenger Armando T Ferreira discharged dead – natural causes

17 January 1909 at 34.06N 15.00W passenger Antonio da Costa Quintas discharged dead – beri beri

23 February 1909 arrived at Hamburg from Iquitos 

2 March 1909 sailed London for Iquitos with two passengers. Captain Leslie Dale was the ships Master

11 March 1909 passed Teneriffe

15 March 1909 sailed St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands

8 May 1909 sailed Maderia

28 August 1909 sailed Liverpool with one passenger for Iquitos, Peru. Captain Leslie Dale was the ships Master

5 September 1909 arrived Hamburg and sailed on 9 September 1909 for Liverpool

14 September 1909 arrived at Lisbon from Liverpool

8 January 1910 sailed Liverpool with one passenger for Iquitos, Peru. Captain Leslie Dale was the ships Master

3 May 1910 sailed Liverpool with one passenger for Iquitos, Peru. Captain Leslie Dale was the ships Master

3 September 1910 sailed Liverpool with two passengers for Iquitos, Peru. Captain Leslie Dale was the ships Master

29 December 1910 sailed Liverpool with one passenger for Iquitos, Peru. Captain Leslie Dale was the ships Master

1911 owners became Booth SS Co Ltd, Liverpool, name unchanged

10 April 1911 sailed Liverpool with three passengers for Iquitos, Peru. Captain Leslie Dale was the ships Master

11 June 1911 at the River Amazon passenger Umberto Questa discharged dead – malaria

29 June 1911 at Lisbon Head Saloon Steward Emil Hansch discharged dead – heart attack

21 September 1911 sailed Liverpool via London with three passengers for Iquitos, Peru. Captain Leslie Dale was the ships Master

31 January 1912 sailed Liverpool with one passenger for Lisbon and Iquitos, Peru. Captain Axel Kaas was the ships Master

12 February 1912 sailed Lisbon

8 June 1912 sailed Lison for Iquitos, Peru

6 September 1912 sailed Liverpool with four passengers for Iquitos, Peru. Captain Leslie Dale was the ships Master

28 December 1912 sailed Liverpool with two passengers for Iquitos, Peru. Captain Leslie Dale was the ships Master

18 February 1913 at Iquitos, Peru Trimmer John Morgan discharged dead – yellow fever

5 May 1913 sailed Liverpool with one passenger for Iquitos, Peru. Captain Leslie Dale was the ships Master

10 July 1913 at Para passenger Carlos Vargas discharged dead – natural causes

10 December 1914 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as a Supply Ship, name unchanged with Captain Spencer V Y de Horsey RNR in command. In the Navy List shown as Squadron Supply Ship No 25. Captain Spencer V Y de Horsey RNR had previously served as a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy before being placed on the retired list

April 1915  became an Auxiliary Patrol Ship Depot Ship, name unchanged.

24 April 1915 Lieutenant Robert Ramsey RNR discharged dead. He died of natural causes at Stornaway and is buried in Horton Kirby, Kent and remembered with pride on the Holbrook Memorial, Southampton 

October 1915 returned to owners

19 September 1917 at 37.57N 21.24W passenger Augusto Alves Boal discharged dead – beri beri

24 February 1918 at Dakar

10 October 1918 at 21.45N 20.07W sighted by HMS AFRICA

HMS AFRICA

30 January 1919 at 32.25N 15.42W passenger Alipio d’Oliviero discharged dead – natural causes

23 July 1919 berthed at New York (Ellis Island) carrying 61 passengers

17 September 1919 berthed at New York (Ellis Island) carrying 58 passengers

19 November 1919 berthed at New York (Ellis Island) carrying 35 passengers

27 January 1920 berthed at New York (Ellis Island) carrying 67 passengers

27 March 1920 berthed at New York (Ellis Island) carrying 26 passengers

26 May 1920 berthed at New York (Ellis Island) carrying 166 passengers

17 July 1920 sailed Barbados for New York

24 July 1920 berthed at New York (Ellis Island) carrying 114 passengers

1921 purchased by Vaccaro Bros & Co, La Ceiba, and renamed MORAZON

1923 purchased by Mexican American Fruit & SS Corporation, La Ceiba, name unchanged

1933 purchased by Seaboard SS Corporation (Standard Fruit & SS Co, Managers) , name unchanged

SS Morazon – from a 1935 publication

1941 purchased by Mohamed Nemazee (Wallem & Co, Managers) Panama, name unchanged

December 1941 captured by the Japanese at Shanghai

1942 declared a War Prize by the Sasebo Prize Court and renamed EKKAI MARU as a the Japanese Government Supply Vessel