Year | Remarks |
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1897 | May 17, launched for Elder Dempster |
1897 | Sept. 3, maiden voyage Avonmouth - Montreal |
1898 | November, chartered to ATL |
1900 | June, became Boer War transport |
1903 | Taken over by Canadian Pacific Line |
1914 | August, became British Expeditionary Forec transport |
1914 | October, rebuilt as dummy battleship, HMS Audacious |
1916 | January, bought by British Admiralty |
1916 | October, converted to oiltanker for Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co, renamed Crenella |
1917 | October, taken over by Shipping Controller |
1917 | Nov. 26, torpedoed off the Irish coast |
1919 | Returned to Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co. |
1920 | Purchased by Runciman, London |
1923 | Bought by Norwegian owners, converted to a whaling depot ship and renamed Rey Alfonso |
1927 | Renamed Anglo Norse |
1929 | Renamed Polar Chief for Falkland Whaling Co. |
1941 | Became the Ministry of War Transport Empire Chief |
1946 | Renamed Polar Chief for South Georgia Co. |
1952 | Scrapped at Dalmuir, Scotland |
The information listed above is not the complete record of the ship. The information was collected from a multitude of sources, and new information will be added as it emerges |