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POLESCAR (1914)

Service dates: 1919-1945

Official number: 132926

Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND; BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

13.11.1913
Launched.
01.01.1914
Completed as Schneefels for Hansa Line, Bremen
05.08.1914
Stopped by units of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean, condemned as a prize and renamed Gibraltar.
1914/1915
Served as a storeship at Mudros.
1915/1916
Served as a water-carrier in the Eastern Mediterranean.
08.1916
Renamed Polescar under Houlder, Middleton & Co Ltd management.
1917
Managers changed to G Heyn & Sons.
14.03.1917
Chased by a submarine northwest of Ireland but escaped.
25.09.1917
Struck by a bomb at Dunkirk.
05.08.1918
Torpedoed and refloated after extensive repairs.
06.01.1919
Acquired by British India Steam Navigation Company.
29.01.1919
Actually purchased by British India Steam Navigation Company.
1921
Converted to carry oil fuel.
05.09.1925
Rescued after running out of coal.
04.02.1933
Lost a propeller blade.
20.03.1936
Collided with Glasgow Wharf.
08.02.1937
Fire outbreak in the copra cargo.
04.1940
Came under the Liner Division.
21.03.1945
Sold to Ministry of War Transport.
12.08.1945
Destroyed by fire and scuttled in the Atlantic.


Ship technical details (PDF)