Copyright State Library of New South Wales acknowledged
Official Number: 128943
Pennant No: Y 9.3
Builder: William Gray, West Hartlepool
Launched: 4 July 1913
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
4 July 1913 launched by Wm Gray & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool as Yard nr 827 named ARABISTAN for F.C. Strick & Co, Swansea
August 1913 completed renamed CHINKOA
31 July 1914 chased by a submarine off the River Tagus, Portugal - escaped
3 August 1914 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as a Stores Carrier, name unchanged
August 1914 Lieutenant Morris G Williams RNR appointed as Commanding Officer and Engineer Ernest F Taylor RNR appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
19 December 1914 returned to her owners
22 January 1918 missed by a torpedo in the English Channel
18 June 1923 landed a member of the crew with bubonic plague at Rangoon, Burma
8 July 1923 on arrival at Freemantle the ship was placed in quaranteen due to the case of bubonic plague (above)
5 April 1925 sailed Calcutta for Australian ports
16 October 1925 sailed Singapore for Freemantle
2 July 1926 sailed Calcutta
26 February 1934 sailed Hobart, Tasmania for Adelaide
23 January 1937 Purchased for £20,000 by Nailsea Steamship Co (B.R. Management Co Ltd, Managers) Cardiff and renamed NAILSEA TOWER
February 1937 sold to the breakers for £12,000
28 November 1937 broken up at Dalmuir |
