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PALMA (1903)
Service dates: 1903-1924
Official number: 116009
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 25.08.1903
- Launched.
- 09.10.1903
- Delivered as Palma for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £107,110. She was third of the 5-strong ‘P’ class. Palma is the capital of the Balearic Islands, a Spanish province in the western Mediterranean.
- 1904
- In a triple collision in fog off Gravesend.
- 1906
- Refrigerating equipment fitted.
- 10.1906
- Deadweight 10,809 tons.
- 09.12.1911
- Heavy seas in the Channel carried away her steering gear pipes and No.5 hatch cover.
- 1912
- Appeared briefly on the P&O Branch Line to Australia via the Cape.
- 1914
- Commissioned as a Fleet Auxiliary.
- 29.04.1917
- Fired on by a submarine west of the Scilly Isles.
- 18.06.1917
- Attacked by two German submarines 500km (300 miles) west of the Irish coast when sailing in convoy from New York to Liverpool. Three torpedoes were fired but all missed, and the attack was discontinued.
- 18.04.1920
- Took in tow the disabled steamer Australmead in the Indian Ocean and towed her 2,000km (1,200 miles) to Mauritius, arriving 27th April.
- 1921
- In collision with the US schooner Horace E Munro, which was abandoned, but won damages in the ensuing court case.
- 1924
- Sold for £17,000 to Attilio Ardito, Italy, for demolition.
- 27.11.1924
- Handed over at Genoa.