Official Number:                                    120820

Class:                                                     Stores Carrier 

Laid down:

Builder:                                                   Workman, Clark & Co Ltd., Belfast

Launched:                                             14 November 1904

Into Service:                                           9 June 1918

Out of service:                                       21 September 1918

Fate:                                                        February 1933 scrapped

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

Background Data:  One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty in WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA

Career:

 14 November 1904 launched by Workman, Clark & Co Ltd., Belfast as Yard Nr: 213 named Telamon for Ocean Steamship Co Ltd (A Holt & Co., Manager) Liverpool

December 1904 completed as a passenger / cargo vessel

31 December 1904 sailed Glasgow for Australian ports

15 February 1905 sailed Adelaide

23 February 1905 arrived at Sydney, NSW

27 February 1905 arrived at Brisbane

10 May 1905 arrived at Melbourne from Glasgow

26 September 1905 arrived at Las Palmas

11 May 1906 at 30°S 150°E Fireman Fang Chang discharged dead by committing suicide – jumped overboard and drowned

20 November 1906 berthed at Melbourne

19 February 1907 berthed at Melbourne

27 November 1907 sailed Gibraltar for Liverpool

16 March 1908 sailed Sydney, NSW

1 April 1908 sailed Adelaide

30 November 1908 while on passage from Adelaide to Liverpool passed Gibraltar this day

23 December 1908 arrived at Greenock from Liverpool

7 March 1909 arrived at Brisbane

10 September 1909 sailed Port Said

18 September 1909 passed Gibraltar

22 September 1909 arrived at Liverpool

19 December 1909 sailed Las Palmas for Brisbane

13 April 1910 arrived at Perim while on passage from Brisbane to Liverpool with her cargo in No. 1 hold on fire. It had been burning for six days

14 April 1910 Lloyds List newspaper reported …

22 April 1910 sailed Port Said

6 May 1910 arrived at Gravesend

12 May 1910 arrived at Liverpool

29 June 1910 arrived at Colombo, Ceylon

20 August 1910 at Singapore Fireman Joseph Critchley discharged dead from natural causes

13 September 1910 arrived at Suez

7 February 1911 arrived at Melbourne

14 February 1911 arrived at Sydney, NSW

 3 June 1911 sailed Liverpool for Hong Kong with two passengers, Captain John H D Hazeland was the ship’s Master

8 June 1911 passed Gibraltar

28 June 1911 arrived at Colombo

12 July 1911 arrived at Hong Kong

18 January 1912 arrived at Adelaide

22 February 1912 berthed at Hobart, Tasmania from Sydney

16 April 1912 arrived at Gravesend

10 May 1912 sailed Glasgow for Australian ports

13 February 1913 sailed Newcastle, NSW for Sydney, NSW

23 May 1912 arrived at Las Palmas

5 July 1912 arrived at Adelaide from Natal

21 July 1912 arrived at Brisbane

5 January 1913 sailed Natal

8 February 1913 arrived at Newcastle, NSW

18 June 1913 arrived at Melbourne

10 September 1913 sailed Las Palmas

17 September 1913 arrived at Gravesend for the Royal Albert Docks

12 January 1914 arrived at Adelaide

16 January 1914 at sea Captain George Fiddes discharged dead from natural causes

10 April 1914 passed Portland Bill while on passage to London

5 June 1914 sailed Glasgow to Brisbane, Australia with three passengers, Captain G S Thompson was the ship’s Master

17 June 1914 at sea Chief Mate Bertram Duff McPherson Nichol discharged dead – missing

12 September 1914 arrived at Thursday Island from Sydney

24 November 1914 in the Atlantic sighted by HMS VINDICTIVE

HMS VINDICTIVE

1 January 1915 sailed from Glasgow

22 May 1915 arrived at London from Brisbane

26 June 1915 sailed Liverpool for Hankow

6 February 1916 arrived at Sydney, NSW

12 February 1916 sailed Sydney, NSW

29 April 1916 arrived at Liverpool from Brisbane

19 May 1916 sailed Liverpool to Hong Kong with six passengers, Captain Willie A Dawson was the ship’s Master

29 December 1916 sailed Port Natal for Adelaide

9 November 1917 at sea Carpenter Alex E Trail discharged dead from natural causes

30 December 1917 sailed Liverpool to Singapore with two passengers, Captain J Edmonson was the ship’s Master

9 June 1918 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Stores Carrier – name unchanged

12 July 1918 at Murmansk delivering 10 bags of mail to to HMS GLORY

HMS GLORY

26 July 1918 sailed Murmansk

2 August 1918 sailed Murmansk 

21 September 1918 returned to her owners – name unchanged

21 December 1918 at Buenos Aires Fireman Mol Yew discharged dead drowned

16 February 1919 sailed Liverpool to China ports with eighteen passengers, Captain Stephen Glossop was the ship’s Master

Captain Stephen Glossop

22 July 1919 when on passage from Liverpool passed Perim

4 August 1919 at Singapore

8 September 1919 sailed Hankow

16 September 1919 sailed Hong Kong

21 September 1919 sailed Singapore

28 September 1919 at Colombo, Ceylon

13 October 1919 sailed Port Said for Liverpool

22 October 1919 passed Gibraltar

29 October 1919 arrived at Liverpool from Hankow

22 November 1919 passed Gibraltar when on passge from Liverpool to Shanghai

23 December 1919 arrived Singapore from Liverpool

Between 18 September 1920 and 1 October 1920 at sea seventeen passengers, all pilgrims to Mecca, discharged dead apparently from natural causes

5 March 1921 at sea at 24°04N 118°9E sighted by HMS FOXGLOVE

15 April 1921 at sea one passenger, a pilgrim to Mecca, discharged dead from drowning

22 December 1923 sailed Glasgow for Australian ports

12 November 1925 at 27°46N 123°30E Captain Fred Lord discharged dead from a heart attack

Captain Fred Lord

December 1930 laid up at the Gareloch

13 February 1932 sailed from Port Barrios

20 April 1932 sailed Melbourne for Liverpool

24 May 1932 at Suez

25 May 1932 sailed Port Said

February 1933 arrived Port Glasgow for demolition by Smith & Houston Ltd.,