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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.