Subsequent Name:                      Bourg

Builder:                                        R Duncan & Co Ltd., Port Glasgow

Launched:                                   14 May 1912

Into Service:                                15 July 1913

Out of service:                             1919

Fate:                                            Bombed & became a total loss during World War 2

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: 

14 May 1912 launched by R Duncan & Co Ltd., Port Glasgow as Yard No: 320 named AGNES DUNCAN for Agnes Duncan SS Co Ltd., (J T Duncan & Co., Managers) Cardiff

1 July 1912 completed and sailed Greenock for Penarth

27 July 1912 passed Prawle Point

1 August 1912 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

13 August 1912 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

16 September 1912 arrived at Portsmouth with a cargo of coal from Cromarty

2 November 1912 sailed Castletown, Bere for Barry Dock

10 March 1913 sailed Portsmouth for Cardiff in ballast

11 March 1913 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

29 April 1913 arrived Portsmouth from Cardiff with a cargo of coal

30 April 1913 sailed from Portsmouth

15 July 1913 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as a Collier – name unchanged – at an initial cost of £1,100 for the first year

22 September 1913 arrived at Portsmouth from Queensferry

24 September 1913 sailed Portsmouth to Cardiff

2 January 1914 from Portsmouth passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west – later berthing at Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff

6 January 1914 sailed Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff for Devonport Dockyard

7 January 1914 berthed at Devonport Dockyard

10 January 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

11 January 1914 berthed at Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff

13 January 1914 sailed Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff for Sheerness Dockyard

16 January 1914 arrived at Sheerness Dockyard

21 January 1914 sailed Harwich for Chatham Dockyard

24 January 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

26 January 1914 entered the Mount Stuart Dry Dock at Cardiff

2 February 1914 sailed Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff to sea

7 February 1914 sailed Arosa Bay for Penarth

11 February 1914 berthed at Penarth in ballast

14 February 1914 sailed Penarth having loaded a cargo of coal for Portland Dockyard

15 February 1914 berthed at Portland Dockyard

19 February 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

23 February 1914 berthed at Portland Dockyard

26 February 1914 sailed Portsmouth Dockyard for Cardiff

1 March 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

5 March 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

15 March 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

18 March 1914 at Portsmouth Harbour alongside HMS IRON DUKE coaling her

20 March 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

23 March 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

31 March 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

15 April 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

21 April 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

9 May 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

6 June 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

12 July 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east then later berthed at Roath Dock, Cardiff from Portsmouth Dockyard

17 July 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

21 July 1914 sailed Roath Dock, Cardiff for Portland Dockyard

22 July 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

26 July 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

28 July 1914 sailed from Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff to Portland Dockyard

6 August 1914 arrived at Cardiff and berthed in Queen Alexandra Dock

8 August 1914 sailed from Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff to sea

17 August 1914 arrived at Cardiff and berthed in Queen Alexandra Dock

2 September 1914 arrived at Cardiff and berthed in Queen Alexandra Dock

6 October 1914 berthed at Bute East Dock, Cardiff and then entered Mount Stuart Dry Dock

14 November 1914 sailed Barry Dock in ballast

11 March 1919 at Cardiff 2nd Engineer Officer Jeffrey T Blackford discharged dead from pneumonia

22 March 1919 at Rosyth berthed alongside HMS VINDICTIVE loading 210 tons of bunkers into the aircraft carrier

HMS VINDICTIVE

28 January 1920 sailed Methil

6 February 1920 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

30 March 1920 Captain Thomas Norie appointed a Member of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)

15 June 1920 arrived at Dublin from Devonport

27 June 1920 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

11 August 1920 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

19 September 1920 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

8 January 1921 arrived at Plymouth from Portsmouth

23 February 1921 arrived at Plymouth

13 March 1921 arrived at Vigo, Spain

3 April 1921 from Barry passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

4 April 1921 arrived at Plymouth

20 April 1921 2 miles WSW of Pendeen with the assistance of the Sennen Lifeboat took the steamer Deansway under tow when the steamer had suffered engine failure

9 May 1921 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

4 July 1921 sailed Malta in company of RFA BERBICE

14 September 1921 at Malta Able Seaman Angus McDonald discharged dead having accidentally fallen into the hold

18 September 1921 sailed Malta for Devonport

1 October 1921 sailed Gibraltar

12 October 1921 arrived at Barry from Devonport

6 January 1922 arrived Barry from Devonport

11 March 1922 berthed at Port Talbot

14 March 1922 sailed Port Talbot

5 June 1922 berthed at Devonport

25 June 1922 from Devonport berthed at Barry

29 June 1922 arrived at Devonport from Barry

2 November 1922 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

26 January 1923 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

22 May 1923 berthed at Penarth Dock, Cardiff and load 3,464 tons of coal for Bordeaux

3 June 1923 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

2 October 1923 sailed Penarth for Devonport

22 February 1924 from Plymouth passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

26 November 1924 the Western Mail newspaper reported –

9 February 1926 passed Sagres

7 March 1926 sailed Falmouth for Rouen, France

7 April 1926 arrived at Cadiz, Spain from Barry

28 May 1926 in Mount Stewart & Shearman’s Dry Dock, Cardiff

2 August 1926 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

4 May 1927 arrived at Methil from Sheerness

4 June 1927 arrived on the River Tyne from Invergordon

12 December 1927 arrived at Devonport

7 February 1928 berthed at La Pallice, France. Seaman George Wright while going on board slipped from the gangway, hit the quay and fell into the dock. Labourer Emile G H Boileau from La Pallice near La Rochelle saved Seaman Wright from drowning. Monsieur Boileau was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society

6 March 1928 passed Lands End when on passage to Dieppe

10 July 1928 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

24 August 1928 arrived Methil from Tilbury in ballast

25 August 1928 sailed Methil for Bordeaux, France with a cargo of coal

12 October 1928 arrived Methil in ballast

17 October 1928 sailed Methil for Bordeaux, France with a cargo of coal

21 March 1929 arrived at Methil from Dieppe

22 March 1929 sailed Methil for Nantes, France with a cargo of coal

29 July 1929 at Rouen, France Fireman & Trimmer George Flemming Beaton discharged dead – drowned

2 August 1929 the body of Fireman & Trimmer George Flemming Beaton found floating in the River Seine

14 August 1929 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

19 August 1929 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

5 December 1929 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

23 December 1930 sailed from Cardiff for Rouen, France with 3,400 tons of coal

27 December 1930 berthed at Rouen, France from Cardiff

1935 purchased by Baltic Shipping Co, Leningrad and renamed BOUG

WW2  served as a Soviet Submarine Depot Ship in the Black Sea 

18 August 1941 was bombed by German aircraft off Kherson, driven ashore and she became a total loss.