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Official No:                          119896

Builder:                        Furness, Withy & Co., Middleton, West Hartlepool

Launched:                    7 June 1906

Pennant No:                        Y 3.1612

Into Service:                 16 May 1917

Out of service:              14 September 1918

Fate:                           14 September 1918 torpedoed and sunk

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

Career Data:

7 June 1906 launched by Furness, Withy & Co., Middleton, West Hartlepool as Yard Nr: 293 named Ada for Seaton Shipping Co Ltd., (S Hogg & Co., Managers) West Hartlepool

July 1906 completed

16 May 1917 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as a Collier – name unchanged – until 30 June 1917

1 July 1917 re-deployed as a Transport carrying wheat from Karachi until 22 October 1917

23 October 1917 re-deployed as a Collier until 25 December 1917

27 October 1917 purchased by Neotsfield Ship Co Ltd., (J Bell & Co., Managers), Hull and renamed Neotsfield

26 December 1917 re-deployed as a Transport carrying wheat from the Gulf of Mexico and finally as a Collier until …

14 September 1918 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-64 (Ernst Krieger) in the Irish Sea 1½ nmiles S Skulmartin Lighthouse, Co. Down in position 54.42N 05.23W while on passage from Glasgow to Naples with a cargo of coal and coke