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NYANZA (1906)
Service dates: 1906-1927
Official number: 123529
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 04.10.1906
- Launched.
- 31.10.1906
- Registered.
- 12.11.1906
- Sailed from the builder’s yard and delivered as Nyanza for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £104,680. She was the third of the 8-strong ‘N’ class built between 1906 and 1913, with moderate passenger accommodation but large cargo capacity, for a new fortnightly non-mail London/China and Japan service. Nyanza is the former name of Lake Victoria (at one time Victoria Nyanza) in British East Africa, now shared by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. P&O had previously used the name in 1864.
- 03.1911
- Deadweight 9,052 tons. Draught 8.271m (27ft 1¾in).
- 25.05.1913
- Stood by the steamer Tainui after she had collided with another vessel.
- 29.02.1916
- Beat off a submarine attack with gunfire off the north coast of Africa, when homeward bound from Calcutta.
- 09.12.1917
- Torpedoed and severely damaged by a German submarine in the English Channel, with the loss of 6 passengers and 43 crew. She had left Plymouth in convoy that morning, bound for Calcutta, but managed to make Falmouth where she was discharged and repaired.
- 23.02.1918
- Left Falmouth for London escorted by two armed trawlers.
- 24.02.1918
- Torpedoed by a German submarine off Brighton with the loss of four crew. After 14 hours in heavy weather she was beached east of Newhaven pier where she was patched before being sailed to Portsmouth about two months later.
- 16.09.1927
- Sold for £17,000 to Sakaguchi Sadakichi Shoten K K, Japan, for demolition at Osaka.