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Official Number: 127990
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Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend
Launched: 3 June 1909
Into Service: 1914
Out of service: 1917
Fate: 1 May 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:
3 June 1909 launched by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend as Yard Nr: 835 named BRITISH SUN for British Sun Co Ltd (Wm Smellie, Manager) Liverpool
July 1909 completed
11 March 1910 at Smith’s Dock, River Tyne
14 July 1910 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard
1 December 1910 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard east bound
22 December 1910 when off Gravesend on passage to Philadelphia in collision with fish carrier Khartoum. The British Sun was damaged on the port side under the bridge and had to put into Gravesend
27 January 1911 off Fayal lost all her propellor blades, anchor and 15 fathoms of anchor cable. There was no damage to the cargo. Ship towed 800 miles – information from Lloyds
27 July 1911 The Aberdeen Press reported –
17 May 1912 arrived at Philadelphia
1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an oiler, name unchanged
1 May 1917 was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-43 230 miles ESE of Malta while on passage from Abadan to Malta with a cargo of fuel oil. No casualties