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Official Number:                     125460

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Builder:                                    Irvine’s Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co Ltd., West Hartlepool

Launched:                               1909

Pennant No:                            Y3.319 / Y8.51

Into Service:                            1914

Out of service:                         10 May 1917

Fate:                                         10 May 1917 captured and sunk 

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Background Data:  One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA

Career Data:

1909 launched by Irvine’s Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co Ltd., Harbour Dock, West Hartlepool as Yard Nr: 169 named BROOMHILL for Broomhill Collieries Ltd., Newcastle

May 1909 completed

1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged

21 April 1915 became a stores carrier – name unchanged

1 June 1916 became a collier again – name unchanged

10 May 1917 captured by German submarine UC-61 in position 50.25N 02.32W and sunk 9 miles SW of Porland Bill by explosive charges while on passage from Penarth to Sheerness carrying coal with the loss of two lives