Requisitioned Auxiliary – Pan Scandia

 

PAN Scania 

 

Official Number:                     N/R

Laid down:

Builder:                                  Swan, Hunter & wigham Richardson, Wallsend

Launched:                             4 May 1931

Into Service:                           During WW2

Out of service:                        During WW2

Fate:                                      22 February 1954 broken up

 

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

 

Background Data:  One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW2 to augment the ships of the RFA

 

Career Data:

4 May 1931  launched by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend as Yard Nr 1459 named PAN SCANDIA for Skibs A/S Astrea (Leif Hoegh & Co A/S, Managers) Oslo

June 1931 completed

20 February 1935 sailed from New Orleans for Rotterdam

WW2 acted as Escort Oiler on a number of Convoys

29 November 1941 sailed Cairns independently to Sourabaya arriving 9 December 1941

30 December 1941 sailed Sourabaya independently

5 January 1942 sailed Balikpapan independently to Sydney, NSW arriving 25 January 1942

28 January 1942 sailed Sydney, NSW independently to Brisbane arriving 30 January 1942

2 February 1942 sailed Brisbane independently to Sydney, NSW arriving 4 February 1942

4 March 1942 sailed Sydney, NSW independently to Wellington, New Zealand arriving 11 March 1942

14 March 1942 sailed Wellington, New Zealand independently to Los Angles, California arriving 10 April 1942

18 April 1942 sailed Los Angles, California independently to San Francisco arriving 20 April 1942

23 April 1942 sailed San Francisco independently to Sydney, NSW arriving 22 May 1942

26 May 1942 sailed Sydney, NSW independently to Brisbane arriving 29 May 1942

1 June 1942 sailed Brisbane independently to Cairns arriving 4 June 1942

21 November 1944 anchored at Avant Port, Bizerte, Tunisia with USS Conasauga (AOG15) alongside discharging diesel oil into the US Navy tanker – 18,110.3 barrels of fuel transferred

28 January 1945 arrived at Oran from Augusta

February 1952 purchased by Vandoma Cia Nav, Panama and renamed JUBILANT

22 February 1954 arrived Osaka for demolition by Kawatetsu Shoji K.K.