Built as a cargo/passenger vessel under yard No 395 by Alex Stephen & Sons, Glasgow for Elder Dempster. London.
23 April 1902 launched under the name TARQUAH.
Tonnage 3.859 grt, 2.441 net, dim. 109.73 x 13.46 x 4.37m.
Powered by a 3-cyl. triple expansion steam engine manufactured by builder, 525 nhp., one propeller speed 10 knots.
Accommodation for 100 first class and 50 second class passengers, later reduced to 60 first and 20 second.
June 1902 completed.
1903 Transferred to the African Steamship Co, managed by Elder Dempster. She was the first ship for this company.
May 1915 in collision with the APPAM in the Cameroon River off Douala.
07 July 1917 torpedoed by the U-57 in a position 10 miles off Bull Rock, south coast Ireland underway from Freetown to Liverpool.
Her cargo of two ingots of gold and ingots of tin and wolfram were lost, no loss of lives.
The wreck is found in 1986 by divers, and some of the ingots of tin were salvaged.
Sierra Leone 1980 31c sg641, scott?
Source: Elder Dempster Lines by Duncan Haws. Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast by Bourne.