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Official No:                            119959

Builder:                         Northumberland Shipbuilding Co., Howden on Tyne

Launched:                     12 September 1904

Pennant No:                          Y 3.104

Into Service:                  8 August 1914

Out of service:               8 April 1916

Fate:                            8 April 1916 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:

12 September 1904  launched by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Co., Howden on Tyne as Yard Nr: 118 named Adamton for Seville & United Kingdom Carrying Co Ltd. (John H Cory Manager) Cardiff

13 September 1904 the Shields Daily Gazette reported –

October 1904 completed

31 December 1904 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …

4 January 1905 arrived at Barry from Glasgow

2 December 1905 sailed Glasgow to Cardiff in ballast

16 January 1906 arrived Glasgow from Seville

28 June 1906 passed Sagres

24 March 1907 sailed Seville for Glasgow

23 April 1914 arrived at Greenock for Glasgow from Seville with a cargo of iron ore

15 June 1914 arrived at Glasgow from Seville with a cargo of iron ore

22 June 1914 sailed Glasgow for Cardiff in ballast

8 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Collier – name unchanged

18 September 1914 was stopped and boarded by the pre-Dreadnought battleship HMS CANOPUS while on passage from Cardiff to St. Lucia and after being cleared was allowed to proceed

21 September 1914 took station astern of HMS CANOPUS on passage to the Coaling Station at Abrolhos Rocks

3 November 1914 at Montevideo was alongside the armoured cruiser HMS DEFENCE to supply her with bunker coal

HMS DEFENCE

6 November 1914 at English Bank, Montevideo alongside HMS DEFENCE to supply her with bunker coal

11 November 1914 at English Bank, Montevideo with a working party from HMS DEFENCE aboard and was alongside the light cruiser HMS GLASGOW to supply her with bunker coal

HMS GLASGOW

23 November 1914 at Abrolhos Rocks alongside the armoured cruiser HMS CORNWALL to supply her with bunker coal

25 November 1914 at Abrolhos Rocks alongside HMS DEFENCE to supplied her with 530 tons of bunker coal

26 February 1915 arrived at Glasgow from Seville with a cargo of iron  ore

18 April 1915 arrived at Glasgow from Seville with a cargo of iron ore

1 November 1915 at Scapa Flow alongside the armoured cruiser HMS WARRIOR to supply her with bunker coal

2 November 1915 at Scapa Flow alongside HMS WARRIOR to supplied her with 130 tons of bunker coal

8 April 1916 captured by the German submarine U-22 (Bruno Hoppe) in the Atlantic and sunk by gun fire 15 miles N of Skerryvore Light House in position 56.32N 07.26W while on passage from Scapa Flow to Barry, Wales in ballast with the loss of one life

Notes:

1. Pennant number subsequently allocated to Daldorch then Spital