Screw Steamer TRENT built by Robert Napier & Sons in 1900 for Royal Mail Steam Packet Co Ltd, London, Passenger / Cargo

Name	Official number	Flag	IMO
TRENT	112664	GBR
Year built	Date launched	Date completed
1900	19/09/1899	01/1900
Vessel type	Vessel description
Passenger / Cargo	Steel Screw Steamer 2 Masts
Builder		Yard	Yard no
Robert Napier & Sons, Govan		East Yard	467

First owner	First port of register	Registration date
Royal Mail Steam Packet Co Ltd, London	London
Other names
1915 HMS TRNT - 1917 HMS ICARUS - 1919 TRENT
Subsequent owner and registration history

Vessel history
6/1/1909 went aground on Semedine Bank, near Cartagena, Colombia. She was not refloated until May. 18/10/1910 rescued crew of the airship "America" 410m SE of Sandy Hook after their first attempt to cross the Atlantic by air. 6/3/1915 requisitioned by the Admiralty as a Fleet Messenger and acted as Depot ship for the river monitors HUMBER, MERSEY and SEVERN for the Gallipoli Campaign. She took their crews out to Malta while the monitors were towed out there in March 1915. In July 1915 she went with the latter two monitors to attack the German cruiser KÖNIGSBERG, holed up in the Rufiji River, East Africa. 1/10/1917 became Depot Ship at Royal Naval Air Service base HMS ICARUS at Houton Bay, Scapa Flow, for the Orkney Air Service flying anti-submarine patrols until March 1918. 23/1/1919 returned to owner
Remarks
c1905 5525grt 3027nrt; 1914 5541grt 2974nrt
End year	Fate / Status
1922	Broken Up
Disposal Detail
2/1922 broken up at Rotterdam

Trent
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