Built as a phosphate carrier under yard No. 909 by Lithgows Ltd, Port Glasgow for the British Phosphate Commissioners.
17 March 1938 launched under the name TRIADIC.
Tonnage 6.378 grt, 8.735 dwt, dim. 135 x 18.3 x 7.8m.
Powered by one diesel engine, 653 nhp., one propeller, speed 12 knots.
May 1938 completed.
She was special built for the transport of phosphate from the island of Nauru to Australia and other countries in the Pacific.
She was managed after delivery by A.H. Gaze C.B.E. in Melbourne, Australia.
On 08 December 1940 attacked by the German raider KOMET with gunfire, off Nauru Island, she got on fire, and was captured, thereafter scuttled by explosives in position 00 43S 167 20E.
Of the crew of 61 of which 16 with the British nationality, 45 natives, 11 prisoners and 8 passengers on board, one native was killed, the others taken as prisoners on board the KOMET.
Together with 500 other prisoners (crews of other captured vessels) landed on the Emirau Island on 21 December 1940.
The KOMET was sometimes masked as the Japanese vessel NANYO MARU.
She is on Nauru 1984 40c sg 298.
Source: Register of Merchant ships completed in 1938, some web-sites.