Official Number:                       137252

Laid down:

Builder:                                   John Fullerton & Co., Paisley

Launched:                               1915

Pennant No:                            Y 3.863  /   Y8 .38

Into Service:                            17 July 1915

Out of service:                         1 August 1917

Fate:                                       6 December 1917 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:

1915 launched by John Fullerton & Co, Paisley as Yard Nr: 238 named BRAESIDE for Wear Steam Shipping Co Ltd (Rose Bros., Managers), Sunderland

March 1915 completed

6 May 1915 berthed at Seaham from Le Harve

8 May 1915 sailed Seaham

17 July 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Stores Carrier – name unchanged – until 12 August 1915

13 August 1915 re-deployed as a collier until 20 January 1916

19 October 1915 berthed at Blyth from Scapa Flow

26 December 1915 sailed Blyth

25 March 1916 further re-deployed as a collier until 1 August 1917

26 May 1916 berthed at Bute West Dock, Cardiff

21 May 1917 at Dover Harbour with HMS LORD MINTO alongside receiving 21 tons of bunker coal

HMS LORD MINTO

5 December 1917 passed the Downs on passage from Blyth to Jersey with a cargo of coal

6 December 1917 torpedoed by the German submarine UC71 and sank 5 miles south of the Owers Light Vessel with the loss of all eleven of her crew – their deaths are recorded with pride on the Tower Hill Memorial and the Plymouth Naval Memorial