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Official No: 118816
Builder: Irvine’s Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co Ltd., West Hartlepool
Launched: 1904
Pennant No: Y 3.526
Into Service: 2 December 1915
Out of service: 30 October 1916
Fate: 30 October 1916 ship missing
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:
1904 launched by Irvine’s Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co Ltd., Harbour Dock, West Hartlepool as Yard No: 137 named Adriatic for Walter H Cockerline (W H Cockerline & Co., Managers) Hull
June 1904 completed
6 December 1915 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as a Transport carrying timber – name unchanged – until 10 February 1916
11 February 1916 re-deployed as a Collier until 10 July 1916
11 July 1916 re-deployed as a Transport carrying timber for the Railway Executive Committee until 16 October 1917
17 October 1917 re-deployed as a Collier again until …
30 October 1917 sailed Newport, Monmouthshire for Marseilles with a cargo of coal and went missing with her crew of twenty six
Notes:
- Pennant Nr: previously allocated to Dromonby