Relationship to Titanic disaster / inquiries.
April 8, 1912
Westbound, Avonmouth to Halifax, encountered and reported an ice field in the vicinity of the subsequent Titanic disaster site: 42°50'N., 49°30'W. to 42°30'N., 50°10'W.
Wireless reports of this ice field were transmitted to and relayed by the Caledonia to Bulgaria on April 9th.
Data:
1907
Built as Cairo for British owned Egyptian Mail Steamship Co., Ltd.
January 7, 1908
Trials in the Clyde.
January 19, 1908
Maiden voyage, Clyde to Naples (arrived January 26) - Marseilles (arrived February 3).
December 1908
Egyptian Mail Steamship Co., Ltd., failed. Cairo and sister Heliopolis laid up for nine months.
August 1909
After nine month lay-up, purchased by Canadian Northern Steamships. Renamed Royal Edward. (Heliopolis, bought at the same time, became Royal George). Refitted at the Clyde for North Atlantic service.
May 12, 1910
First voyage, Avonmouth - Quebec - Montreal.
May 1914
100 miles west of Cape Race, damaged her bow in collision with iceberg.
August 13, 1915
While in service as a British troop transport, carrying troops to Gallipoli, was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-15 six miles west of Kandeliusa Island in the Aegean Sea. Of the 1,586 aboard, 935 were lost.
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