Official Number:                      142298

Laid down:

Builder:                                  Kawasaki Dockyard Co Ltd., Kobe

Pennant No:                           Y 3.2001 / Y 8.127

Launched:                              1917

Into Service:                           September 1917

Out of service:                        3 October 1919

Fate:                                     12 October 1940 torpedoed and sunk

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:

1917 launched by Kawasaki Dockyard Dockyard Ltd., Kobe as Yard Nr: 397 named War Wolf for the Shipping Controller

September 1917 completed, placed under the management of Furness, Withy & Co Ltd., London and requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged

8 December 1918 sailed Port Talbot

27 February 1919 sailed St Johns, Newfoundland to Falmouth

18 March 1919 arrived at Falmouth

28 April 1919 sailed from Philadelphia for Falmouth

22 May 1919 became a Stores Carrier – name unchanged

3 October 1919 returned to her owners – name unchanged

17 October 1919 purchased by Cie des Messageries Maritimes, Dunkirk and renamed Commandant Mages

1938 purchased by Cie France-Navigation S A, Dunkirk and renamed Saint-Malo

19 October 1939 sailed Brest in French convoy 10B to Casablanca arriving 24 October 1939

28 October 1939 sailed Casablanca in French convoy 21K until the convoy dispersed on 30 October 1939

22 January 1940 sailed Halifax in convoy HX17 to Bordeaux

9 August 1940 seized by the Canadian Government at Halifax

12 October 1940 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-101 in position 57.58N 16.32W off Rockall while on passage from St John, New Brunswick to Liverpool carrying steel, grain and general cargo with the loss of 28 lives