Ships that have been requisitioned as auxiliaries

Requisitioned Auxiliary - Alcinous

 

 

 

 

 

Previous name:

 

Subsequent name:                   Carmania           Silvania

Official Number:                        110636

 

Pennant No:                            Y9.16

Laid down:

Builder:                                    Scott & Company, Greenock

Launched:                                7 December 1899

Into Service:                             August 1914

Out of service:                          December 1914

Fate:                                       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

 

7 December 1899 launched by Scott & Co, Greenock as Yard Nr 359 named ALCINOUS for Ocean  S.S. Co Ltd (Alfred Holt & Co, Managers) Liverpool

February 1900 completed

6 April 1901 grounded while on passage from China to Amsterdam in thick fog at East Bay, Dungeness. Refloated without assistance after 5½ hours. Suffered no damage

1 February 1902 sailed Portland, Victoria for Glasgow via the Suez Canal

25 November 1903 sailed Brisbane. Captain Pulford was the Master

17 May 1904 at Newcastle, NSW Adolf WIlliam Landgraff, a Steward on the ship was arrested by Police for shooting at Captain Roderick MacCormaig, the ships Master, with intent to cause greivous bodily harm. He appeared before the Police Court and was committed for trial at the next Quater Sessions

24 May 1904 Chief Officer Richard Bond appeared before Newcastle, NSW, Police Court charged with assaulting three members of the crew.  He pleaded Guilty and was fined in two cases £5 and in the third £3 with costs in each case

19 October 1905 berthed at Tanjong Pagar

3 October 1908 at Yokohama, Japan Fireman William Campbell drowned - discharged dead. 

22 September 1909 sailed Sydney, NSW with a cargo of wool. Captain D Davies was the Master

5 April 1913 sailed Glasgow

20 May 1913 arrived at Port Adelaide

13 June 1913 sailed Brisbane

21 August 1913 arrived at Antwerp from Port Pirie

2 February 1914 sailed Greenock for Yohohama via Liverpool

August 1914 to December 1914 hired by the Admiralty as a Store Carrier No 16 for the RFA

3 August 1914 Lieutenant H Brown RNR appointed as Commanding Officer and Engineer A D Abbott RNR appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

3 August 1914 commissioned 

18 August 1914 sailed from Devonport to Scapa Flow arriving on 23 August 1914

24 August 1914 sailed Scapa Flow to Lerwick arriving the same day

27 August 1914 sailed Lerwick to Scapa Flow

28 August 1914 sailed Scapa Flow to Cromarty to discharge her cargo of ammunition

10 September 1914 at Cromarty alongside HMS Endymion supplying 9.2" Lyddite and other explosives

14 October 1914 at Cromarty alonside HMS Cresent supplying stores

21 October 1914 sailed Cromarty to Basta Voe, Lerwick Islands arriving on the same day

27 October 1914 at Busta Voe supplied a new bower anchor to HMS Crescent

28 October 1914 at Busta Voe alongside HMS Crescent supplying naval stores 

29 October 1914 sailed Basta Voe to Lerwick and returned the same day

20 November 1914 sailed Basta Voe to to Scapa Flow arriving the next day

8 October 1915 sailed Yokohama for Liverpool

22 November 1915 at sea Fireman Kum Ng discharged dead - he had signed on at Honk Kong on 25 February 1915

7 December 1915 berthed at Gravesend

8 January 1916 at Sea Surgeon Frank E Kendall discharged dead - believed heart failure

10 February 1916 arrived at Singapore from Liverpool

2 December 1917 arrived at a US east coast port

31 March 1918 torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine UB57 (Oberleutnant  z. S. Johannes Lohs) 5 miles N20°W of Fairlight Church but managed to reach port.

2 September 1918 drove off an attacking submarine by means of accurate gunfire

12 January 1919 berthed at New York

30 January 1919 sailed New York

14 February 1919 berthed at Liverpool from New York

6 June 1919 at Suez from Batavia for London

7 August 1919 sailed New York via the Panama Canal to Yokohama - Kobe and Shanghai

5 September 1919 sailed Honolulu for Yokohama

4 October 1919 berthed at Shanghai from Yokohama

6 July 1920 berthed at Singapore from Liverpool

9 July 1920 sailed Singapore for Shanghai

2 September 1920 sailed Singapore for Le Harve and Liverpool

3 January 1921 sailed Shanghai for Hong Kong

3 August 1921 arrived at Gravesend from Batavia for the Royal Albert Dock

17 December 1921 sailed Brisbane for Dunkirk, Hull and Antwerp via Suez Canal

30 July 1922 berthed at Gibraltar and sailed the same day

11 August 1922 berthed at Boston, Mass. USA from Gibraltar

17 October 1922 arrived at Port Said

1 September 1925 at East Ham Police Court, London Low Choi, a seaman from the ship, pleaded Guilty to smuggling ¾ lb of opium which had been discovered by a Customs rummage crew hidden onboard. He was fined £10 or 31 days imprisonment and recommended for deportation.

1925 purchased by Ditta L Pittaluga Vapori, Genoa and renamed CARMANIA

1928 renamed SILVANIA by her owners

1932 broken up at Genoa

 

Notes:

 

1.  Was one of a class of nine vessels which were the first to exceed 6000 tons for the original owners