Official Number:                      121261

Laid down:

Builder:                                   Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd., Whiteinch

Pennant No:                    Y 3.416

Launched:                               15 August 1905

Into Service:                            28 July 1915

Out of service:                         1918

Fate:                                      1951 broken up

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

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

Career Data:

15 August 1905 attempted to be launched by Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd., Whiteinch as Yard Nr: 456 named Vancouver for Vancouver Steamship Co Ltd., (Gow, Harrison & Co, Managers) Glasgow

15 August 1905 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …

October 1905 completed

28 July 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Transport carrying sugar – name unchanged – until 16 October 1915

17 October 1915 re-deployed as a collier until 4 December 1915

13 January 1916 reported on by HMS PERTH entering Perim Harbour

4 March 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 15 April 1916

16 April 1916 re-deployed as a Transport carrying sugar until 3 July 1916

13 June 1916 at sea at 37°53N 72°28W stopped by HMS ANTRIM, checked and allowed to proceed

HMS ANTRIM

24 June 1916 at Liverpool berthed alongside HMS MARMORA

4 July 1916 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying nitrates until 21 October 1916 and was then temporarily released

4 May 1917 re-deployed by the Commercial Branch for the Military a/c as a Transport carrying nitrates until 14 July 1917

15 July 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 12 August 1917

13 August 1917 re-deployed by the Commercial Branch for the Military a/c as a Transport carrying nitrates from Chile until 2 December 1917

13 September 1918 re-deployed as a collier until 10 November 1918

11 November 1918 re-deployed as a Transport carrying wheat from the United States and finally as a collier again

1927 purchased by Balcraig Steamship Co Ltd., (Workman, Arbuckle & MacKinnon, Managers) Glasgow and renamed Balcraig

1932 purchased by Soc. Anon Marittima San Pietro, Genoa and renamed San Luigi

September 1942 scuttled at Split by her crew

1951 reported salved and broken up at Split by Brodospas