Official Number: 139061
Builder: Flensburger Schiffbau Ges, Flensburg
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Launched: 16 January 1912
Into Service: 1914
Out of service: 1915
Fate: 1915 torpedoed and sunk
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:
16 January 1912 launched by Flensburger Schiffbau Ges, Flensburg as Yard Nr 316 as the cargo vessel named OPHELIA for A. Kirsten, Hamburg
March 1912 completed
7 October 1914 sailed Wilhelmshaven to allegedly seek for injured sailors from the German torpedo boat S116 which had been sunk on 6 October 1914
18 October 1914 captured by HMS METOR in the North Sea while acting as a Hospital Ship in position 51.51N 03.45E. Seized as a prize by the Admiralty, taken to Yarmouth and was subsequently renamed Huntley
19 October 1914 at Yarmouth Roads
20 October 1914 was at anchor between the Nore and Mouse Lightships
4 May 1915 the seizure of the Ophelia was considered by the Prize Court before the President Sir Samuel Evans
21 May 1915 the Prize Court found that the vessel was correctly seized by the Royal Navy as a Prize as the Ophelia was being used for military purposes and was not constructed, adapted or used for the purposes of a hospital ship
20 December 1915 torpedoed and sunk by UB-10 in the English Channel off Boulogne while on passage from Portishead to Boulogne with a cargo of petrol with the loss of 2 lives
8 May 1916 the decision of the Prize Court was considered by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council – press report herewith –
Press Report from the Birmingham Gazette 9 May 1916