Requisitioned Auxiliary – Navarino

 

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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

 

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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 1 1907 Lloyds List Navarino

 

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 …

 

9 2 1907 Lloyds List Navarino

 

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