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Official No: 140267
Builder: Short Bros. Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland
Launched: 24 November 1916
Pennant No: Y 3.1905
Into Service: 29 November 1917
Out of service: 1918
Fate: 12 July 1940 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:
24 November 1916 launched by Short Bros Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 393 named Adra for English & American Shipping Co Ltd., (C T Bowring & Co. Managers), London
February 1917 completed
29 November 1917 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as a Collier – name unchanged – until 5 April 1918
6 April 1918 re-deployed as a Transport carrying wheat from Argentina until 2 September 1918
3 September 1918 re-deployed again as a Collier, then as a Transport carrying wheat from Canada and finally as a Collier yet again
8 January 1919 sailed Norfolk for La Palmas
1919 owners restyled as Bowring Steamship Co Ltd., (C T Bowing & Co, Managers) London – name unchanged
7 August 1919 arrived at Glasgow from Carthagena, Spain
10 October 1919 arrived at Port Said from Barry, South Wales
20 December 1919 sailed Albany for the United Kingdom
1933 sold to Manual Hadjilos, Syra and renamed IA
12 July 1940 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-99 (Otto Kretschmer) in the Atlantic in position 51.00N 14.00W while on passage from Rosario to Cork with a cargo of wheat and pollards with the loss of three lives
Notes:
- She was the 2nd of two ships to bear the name Adra in the Adra in the Bowing Fleet