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SARDINIA (1902)
Service dates: 1902-1925
Official number: 115696
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 12.06.1902
- Launched.
- 14.07.1902
- Registered as Sardinia for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £130,917. The last of 5 sisters delivered in 1901 and 1902, after Sicilia, Syria, Somali and Soudan. First commercial voyage.
- 1903
- She had an unlucky record of losing propeller blades.
- 11.1917
- Missed by a submarine’s torpedo, and fired back though without detecting any hits.
- 04.02.1918
- Torpedoed in the starboard bow by a German submarine while in a Mediterranean convoy. The 62 passengers and most of the crew transferred to an escorting warship, but Captain F G Cadiz, officers and 32 crew remained on board. Since it was felt that her forward bulkhead was in danger of collapse, she sailed astern at 3.5 knots the 98km (61 miles) to Oran where she was patched, proceeding then to Gibraltar and London for permanent repairs.
- 1919
- Used for repatriating Australian troops before returning to her commercial career.
- 1920
- Cargo fire at Marseilles.
- 1925
- Cargo fire at Kobe.
- 23.02.1925
- Sold to Kishimoto Kisen K K, Japan for Yen 150,000 for demolition at Osaka.