Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko HMS "Aphis" he Royal Navy. I hangaia e Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, i whakarewahia i te 15 o Hepetema 1915 ka oti i te Noema 1915. I noho ia ki Port Said i te timatanga o te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao, i mahi ia i Romania, ka tae ki te China Station tae noa ki te 1940. Ko tana mahi whawhai katoa i te Moana-a-Kiwa, i te uru atu ki te whakaekenga o Pantelleria me
i te tonga o Wīwī, ka hoki poto ki te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa i te tau 1945. I whakakorehia ia i Singapore i te tau 1947. I hangaia tana akomanga mo nga awa iti, tere tere hoki, a i pai hoki mo nga mahi takutai i te wa e taea ai te whakamahi i ona patu taimaha hei tautoko i nga mahi a te ope taua.