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Official No:                               120632

Builder:                                    Stephenson & Co Ltd., Hebburn-on-Tyne

Launched:                                14 October 1905

Pennant No:                             Y 3.338 / F.1

Signal Letters:                          HDTS

Into Service:                              28 September 1914

Out of service:                          16 April 1919

Fate:                                       5 February 1933  reported broken up

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  October 1905 launched by Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd, Hebburn-on-Tyne as Yard Nr: 94 named ARLINGTON COURT for Court Line Ltd (Haldinstein & Co Ltd, Managers), London

17 October 1905 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …

November 1905 completed

24 November 1905 sailed from Newport for Bahia Blanca

11 December 1905 register opened at London as Nr: 167/1905 in the Register Book

28 September 1914 requisitioned for service as a Collier until 22 December 1914

14 October 1914 stopped by HMS EMPRESS of BRITAIN off St Vincent

6 November 1914 sailed from Abrolhos Rocks

22 November 1914 arrived at Abrolhos Rocks

23 November 1914 supplied coal to HMS ORAMA off Abrolhos Rocks

25 November 1914 supplied more coal to HMS ORAMA – a total of 1,283 tons

26 November 1914 & 27 November 1914 supplied coal to HMS INVINCIBLE

28 November 1914 sailed from Abrolhos Rocks with colliers – Langoe, Ruperra, Trevanion, Impoco, Crown of Arragon, Pensilva, Tregurno and Westborough – for Port William, Falkland Islands

13 December 1914 supplied coal to HMS ORAMA – a total of 870 tons

14 December 1914 arrived Stanley, Falkland Islands from Barry carrying Admiralty coal and stores

17 December 1914 at Stanley, Falkland Islands alongside HMS OTRANTO supplying 508 tons of coal

22 December 1914 sailed from Stanley, Falkland Islands

1915 owners restyled as Hadin & Co:, Ltd., London

29 March 1915 boarded by HMS SUFFOLK in Chesapeake Bay

28 August 1915 served a Transport carrying sugar until 6 November 1915

7 November 1915 served as a Collier until 13 December 1915

14 December 1915 served a Transport carrying sugar until 10 March 1916

11 March 1916 served as a Collier until 17 April 1916

27 July 1916 served as a Collier until 2 September 1916

1 January 1917 served as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying timber until 16 February 1918

20 March 1917 sold to Mitchell Steamship Co Ltd., (G.H. Mitchell & Co, Managers) London name unchanged

14 May 1917 torpedoed and damaged by U-57 (Kptlt. Carl-Siegfried Ritter von Georg)  off  the SW coast of Ireland in position 51°24N 11°20 W on passage from St Johns N.B. to Cherbourg carrying timber, and was towed into port for repairs

9 February 1918 management transferred to W.J. Williams and renamed PENYLAN by her Owners

17 February 1918 served as a Collier until 8 September 1918

9 September 1918 served as a Transport carrying wheat from the United States until 12 December 1918

13 December 1918 served as a Transport carrying wheat from Australia until 16 April 1919

1919 sold to Sidney Rees Navigation Co Ltd (John S Rees & Co, Managers) Cardiff and renamed PENRHOS

1925 sold to Soc. Anon. A. Parodi fu  B., Genoa and renamed ZOVETTO

5 February 1933  reported broken up at Pola by Yugoslavian shipbreakers

Notes:

Collier Pendant Nr: subsequently allocated to PENYLAN