Official No:                           124127

Builder:                        J.L. Thompson & Sons Ltd, North Sands, Sunderland

Launched:                    19 July 1906

Pennant Nr:                  Y 3.1419 / Y 2.190

Into Service:                 25 June 1916

Out of service:              3 February 1918

Fate:                           3 February 1918 captured 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:

19 July 1906 launched by J.L. Thompson & Sons Ltd, North Sands, Sunderland as Yard Nr 442 named ABOUKIR for Clydesdale Shipowners Co Ltd (Glen & Co, Managers) Glasgow

August 1906 completed

25 June 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying timber until 29 August 1916

30 August 1916 re-deployed as a Transport carrying sugar until 10 January 1917

11 January 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 16 February 1917

17 February 1917 re-deployed as a Transport carrying sugar from Cuba until 9 May 1917

10 May 1917 re-deployed as an Armaments carrier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government a/c until 31 August 1917

1 September 1917 re-deployed as a collier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government a/c until 7 December 1917

8 December 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 26 January 1918

27 January 1918 re-deployed as a Transport carrying Argentine grain until ….

3 February 1918 captured by the German submarine UB-48 (Kptlt. Wolfgang Steinbauer) in the Mediterranean and sunk by gunfire 20 miles E x S Cape Creus, Gulf of Lyons in position 42°20N 03°40E while on passage from Genoa to Montevideo in ballast. No casualties but her Master was taken prisoner