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MOLDAVIA (1903)

Service dates: 1903-1918

Official number: 117382

Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:


Passenger Liner.


Career

29.05.1901
Ordered.
28.03.1903
Launched by the daughter of Sir Thomas Sutherland, Chairman of P&O.
20.04.1903
Fire in one of her bunkers damaging the bulkhead plates.
30.07.1903
Delivered as Moldavia for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £336,178.
21.08.1903
‘Shakedown’ cruise in the English Channel.
11.09.1903
Opened to the public for 2 days at Tilbury.
25.09.1903
Maiden voyage a shakedown on the London/Bombay run.
11.12.1903
First sailing London/Colombo/Melbourne/Sydney.
19.01.1907
Ran aground in thick fog on the Goodwins, but refloated without difficulty.
02.1908
Draught 8.633m (28ft 4in).
21.04.1912
Ship veered suddenly to starboard in the Suez Canal.
1911/1913
Four voyages extended to Auckland.
27.11.1915
Hired by the Admiralty for service as an armed merchant cruiser.
11.1916
Sank abandoned merchant vessel Patria, by gunfire.
11.1916
Compulsorily purchased by the Admiralty.
21.12.1916
Alongside Meadowside Wharf, Glasgow for a refit.
16.01.1917
Left Glasgow for Busta Voe to resume patrol of northern waters.
09.02.1917
Intercepted the Italian vessel Famiglia.
02.1917
Ownership reverted to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
30.07.1917
Completed her last patrol of Northern waters.
09.08.1917
Sailed for Dakar to take up new posting as convoy escort between the UK and West Africa.
11.05.1918
Left Halifax, Nova Scotia bound for London.
20.05.1918
Joined by five destroyers for the final leg of the voyage.
23.05.1918
Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB57 off Beachy Head.


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