Official Number:                      118644

Laid down:

Builder:                                  Wm. Doxford & Sons, Pallion Yard, Sunderland

Pennant No:                           Y 3.79

Launched:                              13 August 1904

Into Service:                           22 February 1916

Out of service:                        27 August 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 just after WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA

Career Data:

13 August 1904 launched by Wm. Doxford & Sons, Pallion Yard, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 323 named Nairn for Dunrobin Shipping Co Ltd., (A. M. Sutherland, Manager), Newcastle

October 1904 completed and sold to J Bruce Murray & Co, Glasgow  for about  £33.500 – name unchanged

1908 sold to Park Steamship Co Ltd., (Col. J Smith Park MVO Manager) Glasgow – name unchanged

26 May 1908 at 19°20N 87°02E Coal Trimmer Fooman Bookoa discharged dead from heat apoplexy

15 February 1909 at the Seaman’s Institute, Calcutta 3rd Mate W O Bridgeman discharged dead from suicide by hanging after attempting to cut his throat while temporaraily insane

24 May 1912 at Presidency General Hospital, Calcutta Mate Robert O Hately discharged dead from tubercle of lungs

9 August 1914 at Calcutta

12 November 1914 at sea Lascar seaman Noor Mea Aminoody discharged dead from injuries sustained when he fell down a hatchway

22 February 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged until 31 May 1916

1 June 1916 re-deployed as a Transport carrying sugar until 30 September 1916

1 October 1916 re-deployed as a Collier until 6 February 1917

7 February 1917 redeployed as a Transport carrying wheat from Australia until 17 July 1917

24 February 1917 off Ceylon stopped and boarded by the 2nd Class Cruiser HMS NEWCASTLE. Checked and allowed to proceed

HMS NEWCASTLE

13 June 1917 at Sierra Leone

18 July 1917 re-deployed as a Collier until …

27 August 1917 torpedoed and sunk by the Austro-Hungarian k.u.k U-14 (George Ritter von Trapp) in the Mediterranean 125 miles N x NW Benghazi in position 34.05N 19.16E when on passage from Malta to Port Said with a cargo of coal