Torpedoed by submarine UB-10 and sank 20 miles north of IJmuiden while in passage from Hull to Harlingen on 24 April 1917.^[5][6]

Sunk as a block ship in August 1914 at Windau she was raised and rebuilt by Kaiser Werft in Danzig in 1916 for supply work with the same name.
Renamed Triton l in 1923 and Falke in 1927 when resold within Germany.
In 1929 she carried General Delgado to La Guaira in Venezuela for an abortive revolution, the General being killed.
Became Ilse Vormauer in 1930 and traded in the Caribbean and Yunque in 1933 when sold to Cuban interests. Finally renamed Colombia (or Columbia) as a Cuban naval transport.
Stranded and lost in a hurricane at Havana, Cuba on 18 October 1944.^[5][7]

Returned to her owners in 1920. She was transferred to A.H.L in 1935 but was considered redundant on account of her age.
She was broken up in 1936.^[8]

In the later stages of 1914, Officers of the NER's pals battalion, the 17th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, were accommodated aboard the ship whilst in dock at Hull. She was taken over by the Admiralty in March 1915 as a stores carrier and later that year converted to an ammunition carrier. On voyage Rotterdam for Hull, sank on 3 September 1916 after hitting a mine laid by submarine UC-10 one mile off Rosse Spit Buoy in the Humber estuary, with the loss of two lives.^[8][9]

Returned to her owners in 1920 and transferred to LNER in 1923.
Transferred into service with A.H.L. in 1935, but was sold in 1936 to Chinese interests and renamed Houlee.
Sunk by Japanese forces action in 1938.^[8]

The final ship to be built for the company and quite different from their traditional profile.
One of the two ships transferred into service with A.H.L. in 1935.
Following the fall of the Netherlands, she operated in coastal convoys until conversion to a convoy rescue ship in 1941, but a grounding while on delivery voyage, including being struck by a mine while stranded, caused severe damage which, but for the war, would have been terminal. Was re-floated and repaired at Aberdeen and finally took up service in February 1942.
Resumed Hull-Rotterdam service in March 1946.
Renamed Melrose Abbey II in April 1958 to release name for a new building. Withdrawn and laid up in January 1959.
Sold to Greek cruising and ferry company Typaldos Lines and renamed Kriti. Served until liquidation of owners in 1966, then laid up in the port of Piraeus where she was broken up in 1984.^[10]