Official Number:                      133003

Laid down:

Builder:                                  Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd, Low Walker

Pennant Nr:                            Y 3.1274

Launched:                              1911

Into Service:                            8 September 1916

Out of service:                        18 October 1917

Fate:                                      18 October 1917 torpedoed & 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

1911 launched by Irvine’s Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co, Harbour Dock, West Hartlepool as Yard Nr: 510 named CADMUS for John Gaff & Co, Glasgow

23 December 1911 sailed on builders trials. The Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail newspaper reported …

December 1911 completed

12 February 1912 arrived at the River Tyne and berthed at Tyne Dock

20 February 1912 sailed the River Tyne for Algiers

17 March 1912 passed Gibraltar sailing east bound

18 May 1912 sailed Sunderland

5 October 1912 arrived at the River Tyne from Hamburg

1915 sold to Chr. Salvesen & Co, Leith – name unchanged

8 September 1916 requisitioned for service as a Collier to Northern Russia for Russian Government a/c until 24 October 1916

23 September 1916 at 58°54N 13°44W stopped and boarded by the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS TEUTONIC. All found correct and allowed to proceed. Later the same day at 59°34N 14°42 W stopped and boarded by the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS AVENGER. All found correct and allowed to proceed

HMS AVENGER

25 October 1916 re-deployed as a Transport to Northern Russia carrying flax, etc intil 22 November 1916

23 November 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 9 August 1917

10 August 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport for one trip carrying ammunition empties until 18 August 1917

19 August 1918 re-deployed as a collier until 12 October 1917

13 October 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying ammunition empties Dunkirk / Blyth until …

18 October 1918 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UC-47 (Oblt. Günther Wigankow) in the North Sea 20 miles S x E ½ E of Flamborough Head when on passage from Dunkerque to Blyth carrying empty shell cases