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GASCOYNE (1907)
Service dates: 1922-1931
Official number: 124065
Shipping lines: WEST AUSTRALIAN STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; BETHELL, GWYN & COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 28.03.1907
- Launched.
- 09.05.1907
- Completed as Quilpue for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and employed on the Valparaiso/Callao service.
- 12.06.1917
- Escaped a U-boat gunfire attack, probably UC53, in the North Atlantic.
- 12.06.1918/12.01.1919
- Taken up under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 24.01.1919/18.08.1919
- Employed as an Expeditionary Force transport.
- 1921
- Employed on the New York/Guayaquil service.
- 1922
- Sold to the West Australian Steam Navigation Company Ltd (Bethell, Gwyn & Company, managers) and renamed Gascoyne. The British India Steam Navigation Company had an interest in the company (approximately 20.5%).
- 29.01.1932
- Scrapped at Osaka, Japan.