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Original Name: Rock Light
Official Number: 95548
Laid down:
Builder: Oswald Mordaunt & Co, Woolston
Launched: 19 December 1888
Into Service: 5 July 1915
Out of service: 23 February 1918
Fate: 23 February 1918 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:
19 December 1888 launched by Oswald Mordaunt & Co, Woolston as Yard nr: 251 named ROCK LIGHT for Rock Light SS Co Ltd (C. Croshaw & Lane, Managers) London
21 December 1888 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …
April 1889 completed
12 August 1890 arrived at New York from Shields
7 April 1891 passed Gravesend for Purfleet from Batoum
1 January 1892 passed Gravesend for Purfleet from Batoum
5 January 1892 passed Gravesend for Batoum
10 March 1892 passed Gravesend for New York via Dartmouth
23 April 1892 sailed Dartmouth for Philadelphia
5 June 1892 sailed Dartmouth for Philadelphia
23 June 1892 arrived Philadelphia
4 September 1892 arrived at London from Flushing
19 September 1892 sailed Dartmouth for Philadelphia
24 November 1892 arrived at Philadelphia from Flushing
27 November 1893 passed the North Foreland while on passage from Wilmington to London
1899 purchased by Shell Transport & Trading Co Ltd, London name unchanged
5 July 1915 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as an oiler, name unchanged
June 1917 purchased by British Tanker Co Ltd, London and renamed BRITISH VISCOUNT
9 January 1918 in collision with HMS ORVIETO close to the Bar Light Vessel during a heavy snow storm
23 February 1918 was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-91 when 12 miles NW of the Skerries while on passage from Liverpool to Queenstown with a cargo of fuel oil with the loss of six lives