What British ship did Dr. James A. Mcllroy voyage on that was crushed by ice causing her to sink 1n 1916?
McIlroy Peak McIlroy Peak ( ) is a peak rising to 745 m west of Husvik Harbour and 0.8 nmi south of Mount Barren, South Georgia. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1990 after Dr. James A. McIlroy, surgeon on the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–16, in the "Endurance", and on the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, 1921–22, in the "Quest".
SS Golconda (1887) SS "Golconda" was a 5,874 gross ton passenger ship built in 1887 by William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, England. She was 422 ft long with a beam of 41.8 ft and had two funnels and was operated by the British India Steam Navigation Company. In 1915 six hundred German civilian internees from the camp in Ahmednagar were transported to London on the "Golconda", from where they were repatriated via the Netherlands. A further group of five hundred Germans were repatriated in a similar way in March 1916. "Golconda" struck a mine and sank in the North Sea on 3 June 1916, 5 nmi south east by east of Aldeburgh, Suffolk ( ) with the loss of nineteen lives. She was lost while on a voyage from Tees and London to Calcutta with general cargo.