[7] SS Tredinnick was torpedoed 25 or 29 March 1942 (sources conflict as to the date)[8] by the Italian submarine Pietro Calvi on passage from New York to Table Bay and lost with all hands.

[3]: 68 After conducting her sea trials off the River Tyne[9] Trebartha departed Avonmouth on 24 December 1920 for Liverpool and sailed on 1 Jan 1921[10] for Fremantle; Adelaide; Melbourne; Sydney; and Brisbane[11] under the command of Captain J.H.

[15][16][17] Whilst in Sydney the apprentice Samuel Hills, aged 16, was overcome by fumigating gas when removing hatch covers and fell 40 ft into No.

[3]: 126 During the winter of 1934-1935 she was trapped in ice in the harbour of Vladivostok for nearly a month, Captain T. H. Stanbury telling The Sydney Morning Herald on 22 February that the Chief Officer E.A.

[4][32][33] On 28 April 1939 the top 20 ft of her after-mast snapped whilst unloading cargo at Woolloomooloo, with the entire mast being replaced in Melbourne.

[36][4] On 11 November 1940, the Trebartha was a member of the northbound Methil to Oban Convoy EN 23, on her way in ballast from London to Philadelphia for a cargo of scrap and steel.

[4][36] Coming up the east coast of Scotland, the convoy was attacked by a Heinkel He 111 at 1358, the escorting Avro Anson N.5372 successfully diverting it away; although they were unable to intercept.

[39]: 126–127  They were picked up by the Dutch cargo steamer SS Oberon which, escorted by the lifeboat Emma Constance, put into Aberdeen where the surviving crew of Trebartha and Creemuir were taken to the Seaman's Mission.