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Official No:                             108756

Builder:                         John Shearer & Son, Kelvinhaugh, Glasgow

Launched:                    4 August 1898

Pennant No:                          Y 2.10 / Y 3.2218

Into Service:                 28 September 1914

Out of service:              1918

Fate:                             23 October 1940 wrecked

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:

4 August 1898 launched by John Shearer & Son, Kelvinhaugh, Glasgow as Yard No: 24 named Achorite for William Robertson & Co Ltd., Glasgow

August 1898 completed

22 April 1911 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

25 September 1914 was stopped and boarded in the North Atlantic by the pre-Dreadnought Battleship HMS VENGEANCE and after being cleared was allowed to proceed

HMS VENGEANCE

28 September 1914 requisitioned by the Admiralty as an Ammunition Carrier – name unchanged – until 26 May 1918

27 May 1918 re-deployed as a Collier

13 August 1921 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

28 October 1926 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

11 February 1928 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

1930 purchased by Reden A/B Hannah (G H Dalgren, Manager) Helsingborg and renamed Hannah

18 March 1940 sailed from Norwegian Waters in escorted convoy HN20 to Methil arriving 22 March 1940

11 October 1940 sailed Milford Haven in escorted convoy OG44

23 October 1940 wrecked on the breakwater at Leixoes, Portugal whilst inward bound bound from Cardiff, Wales with a cargo of coal