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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.