| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Steamship Gairloch Company Ltd., (J. Gardiner & Company, manager). Glasgow |
Glasgow |
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| Other names |
| 1921 SAXON PRINCE -1924 NAXOS -1936 OGADEN |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
14/11/1917 Rio-Cape Line Ltd., (Furness, Withy & Company Ltd, manager).
07/12/1921 Renamed SAXON PRINCE.
1924 Aktiebolaget Naxos (R. Mattson, manager), Helsingfors, and renamed NAXOS.
1936 Ignazio Messina & Company, Genoa, and renamed OGADEN.
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| Vessel history |
War service
23/04/1915 until 24/10/1915 Expeditionary Force Transport – Canadian stores
07/12/1915 until 30/03/1916 Expeditionary Force Transport – nitrates.
26/06/1916 until 28/08/1916 Commercial Branch (Military) – nitrates.
29/08/1916 until 30/10/1916 Royal Navy Collier (No. 1258).
31/10/1916 until 11/03/1917 Wheat from Australia.
12/03/1917 until 09/05/1917 Expeditionary Force Transport (No. F0126) - second-hand trucks from Immingham to Dunkirk.
10/05/1917 until 23/06/1917 Royal Navy Collier (No. 1258) in Italian Government service.
24/06/1917 until 11/09/1917 Sugar from Cuba.
12/09/1917 until 25/11/1917 Royal Navy Collier (No. 1258).
26/11/1917 until 26/02/1918 Commercial Branch (Military) – nitrates from Chile.
27/02/1918 until 20/09/1918 Wheat from Gulf of Mexico and Argentina.
21/09/1918 until 27/11/1918 Royal Navy Collier (No. 1258).
28/11/1918 until 31/01/1919 Wheat from River Plate.
01/02/1919 To the Liner Section
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1942 |
Torpedoed 12/08/1942 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Whilst on a voyage from Benghazi to Tobruk, was torpedoed and sunk by HMS PORPOISE 9 miles off Ras El Tin. |
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