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Official Number: 124161
Builder: Wm. Hamilton & Co, Glen Yard, Port Glasgow
Pennant No: Y 3.1291
Signal Letters: HKBQ
Launched: 28 December 1906
Into Service: 24 September 1916
Out of service: 28 May 1919
Fate: 28 February 1943 torpedoed & 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:
28 December 1906 launched by Wm. Hamilton & Co, Glen Yard, Port Glasgow as Yard Nr 191 named NAVARINO for Glasgow Shipowners’ Co Ltd., (Glen & Co, Managers) Glasgow
1 January 1907 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …
1 February 1907 Register opened at Glasgow as Nr: 8/1907 in the Register Book
February 1907 completed
7 February 1907 passed Kildonan, Isle of Aran south bound having sailed from Greenock bound for Norfolk, Virginia
9 February 1907 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …
24 September 1916 requisitioned for service as a Collier until 3 November 1916
4 November 1916 served as a Transport carrying wheat from Australia until 28 November 1916
29 November 1916 again served as a Collier until 13 January 1917
14 January 1917 served as a Transport carrying wheat from Australia until 5 May 1917
9 April 1917 stopped and boarded by HMS PERTH when the warship was employed on the Perim Patrol
6 May 1917 served as a Transport carrying wheat from the United States until 25 July 1917
26 July 1917 again served as a Collier until 1 September 1917
2 September 1917 served as a Transport carrying wheat from the United States until 2 December 1917
3 December 1917 further service as a Collier until 16 January 1918
17 January 1918 with the Commercial Branch (Military a/c) as a Transport carrying nitrates from Chile until 6 September 1918
7 September 1918 further service as a Collier 25 October 1918
26 October 1918 served as a Transport carrying wheat from the United States until 3 January 1919
4 January 1919 served as a Collier until 25 February 1919
26 February 1919 served as a Transport carrying wheat from the UnitedStates until 28 May 1919
1936 sold to Achille Lauro, Naples and renamed ISCHIA
28 February 1943 torpedoed and sunk by the submarine HMS TORBAY (Lt. Commander Anthony Miers Royal Navy) one mile off shore near Portofino on passage from La Spezia to Genoa