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Official No:                             99075

Builder:                          Edward’s Shipbuilding, Howdon on Tyne

Launched:                      17 May 1892

Pennant No:                           Y 8.133 / Y 3.1748

Into Service:                  1917

Out of service:                1919

Fate:                             1927 broken up

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

Background Data:  One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA

Career Data:

14 March 1892 launched by Edward’s Shipbuilding Co, Howden on Tyne as Yard Nr: 59 named BRANKSOME TOWER for F Sturmore & Co

18 March 1892 the Jarrow Express newspaper reported …

17 May 1892 completed

1892 purchased by Hamburg-Sudamerikanische D G, Hamburg and renamed RIO

1902 purchased by Deutsche Levante Line, Hamburg and renamed SERIPHOS

19 May 1902 arrived at New York

5 May 1903 arrived at New York

29 August 1903 arrived at New York

29 December 1903 arrived at New York

18 April 1904 arrived at New York from Levant

4 August 1904 arrived at New York from Levant

1914 was interned at Piraeus

1916 seized by the Allies

1917 registered in the name of His Majesty in the King at Malta

8 August 1917 directions given by the Shipping Controller to the Governor of Malta for the reistration there to be cancelled so that it could be taken over by the Shipping Controller under the management of Frank C Strick & Co and renamed HUNTSGULF

1917 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged

18 November 1917 five miles NW of Point Cherchell torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-63 – no loss of life

14 January 1919 at Mudros supplied 439 tons of bunker coal to HMS St GEORGE

28 January 1919 at Mudros supplied 93 tons of bunker coal to RFA BACCHUS (1)

29 January 1919 at Mudros supplied 47 tons of bunker coal to RFA BACCHUS (1)

13 February 1919 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport until 3 April 1919

26 June 1919 became a Stores Carrier – name unchanged

1920 purchased by P Mitrovich, Yugoslavia and renamed JUGOSLAVEN PRVI

10 June 1920 arrived at Norfolk, Virginia from the River Tyne

28 June 1920 sailed Norfolk, Virginia for Chile

1924 owners became Josip Ucovich and renamed VOJSLAW

22 October 1925 The Times newspaper reported –

1q 1927 arrived Inverkeithing for demolition by T W Ward Ltd