The steamship Kerry Range was a 5,800-ton general cargo freighter, armed with 4.7-inch (119 mm) guns, that had been built by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company[2] and launched on 27 November 1915.

[3] While serving as a Royal Navy armed transport she was damaged in a fire, with loss of life, in Baltimore, Maryland, in October 1917.

[7][8] However, the damaged vessel was salvaged and sold to the Steam Navigation Company of Canada in 1918.

[2] In 1920, the ship's Canadian owners renamed her Blossom Heath, and in 1925 she was sold to the Dubrovnik-based Yugoslavian company Yugoslavenska Americaniska Plovidba ad.

Vojvoda Putnik stayed in Yugoslav service until torpedoed and sunk during World War II by the German U-boat U-591 in the Atlantic Ocean (58°42′N 31°25′W / 58.700°N 31.417°W / 58.700; -31.417) on 8 March 1943.