Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Arrival

Thursday, July 13, 1944 @ 1100
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only 		AORANGI (1924-1940 Passenger liner of Union Steamship Company, then 1940-1946 Troopship and Depot ship, then 1948-1953 Passenger Liner 600 feet long of Union S.S. Company) Own Page

Troopship AORANGI arrives at Tail-of-the-Bank anchorage, Greenock to await conversion to Depot Ship
Ship's locationTail-of-the-Bank anchorage off Greenock (Firth of Clyde, Scotland, UK)Port of RegistryNew Zealand
Ships agentMinistry of War Transport, London

AORANGI arrived on the Clyde on July 13th 1944 and on July 25th entered the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. yard, Glasgow, for further conversion work to equip her as a submarine depot and crew accommodation Ship. It was intended that she operate as a depot ship for the 8 'T' class and 2 'S' class boats of the reconstituted 4th Submarine Flotilla at Trincomalee and would leave the UK in February 1945 (Winrton, Forgotten fleet p.249). Her departure for the Far East was delayed until March 1945, she departed the Clyde on March 31st with convoy KMF.42 bound for Trincomalee via Bombay and carrying 433 service passengers.

A very full description of the life of AORANGI, both in peacetime and in wartime, is on http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/BPF-EIF/Ships/AORANGI.htm#.WLemRoXXLIU