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Official No: 127461
Builder: Wm. Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool
Launched: 24 June 1910
Pennant No: Y 3.9 / Y2.199
Signal Letters: HRMD
Into Service: 24 June 1910
Out of service: 18 September 1917
Fate: Sunk
Career:
24 June 1910 launched by Wm. Gray & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool as Yard Nr 772 named JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN for Joseph Chamberlain Steamship Co Ltd (J. & R.O. Sanderson & Co, Managers) West Hartlepool
27 June 1910 the Shields Daily Gazette newspaper reported …
12 August 1910 register opened at West Hartlepool as Nr: 12/1910 in the Register Book.
August 1910 completed
13 August 1910 arrived at the River Tyne from Hartlepool
16 August 1910 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …
21 August 1910 sailed from the River Tyne for Savona
19 September 1910 sailed from Savona for the Black Sea
26 September 1910 arrived at Constantinople
31 July 1914 requisitioned after fifteen days for service as a Collier.
2/ May 1916 served as a Collier until 21 August 1916
22 August 1916 served as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying timber from Canada and the Gulf of Mexico and was then temporarily released on 14 November 1916
12 February 1917 served as a Collier and was again temporarily released on 24 April 1917
6 April 1917 to 8 April 1917 at Sierra Leone alongside HMS MARMORA supplying 855 tons of bunker coal
HMS MARMORA
June 1917 sold to W. & C.T. Jones Steamship Co Ltd (W. & C.T. Jones, Cardiff, Managers) West Hartlepool and renamed AIGWEN
22 June 1917 served as a Collier until 10 July 1917
11 July 1917 served as an Ammunition Carrier to Northern Russia for Russian Government a/c until …
18 September 1917 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-62 (Kptlt. Bernhard Putzier) in the North Atlantic 50 miles N x W of Muckle Flugga on passage from Arkhangelsk to Lerwick and Dieppe carrying timber with the loss of 18 lives. The Master and one Gunner were taken prisoner.