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Official Number: 129782
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Builder: Wm. Doxford & Sons Ltd, Pallion Yard, Sunderland
Pennant No: Y3. ???
Signal Letters: HTSK
Launched: 5 October 1911
Into Service: 10 August 1914
Out of service: 20 April 1916
Fate: Captured and sunk by gunfire 20 April 1916
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:
5 October 1911 launched by Wm. Doxford & Sons Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 437 named CAIRNGOWAN for Cairn Line of Steamships Ltd., (Cairns, Noble & Co Ltd, Managers) Newcastle-upon-Tyne
7 November 1911 the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail newspaper reported …
16 November 1911 register opened at Newcastle-upon-Tyne as Nr: 24/1911 in the Register Book
December 1911 completed. Sister to CAIRNDHU
1 December 1911 sailed Barry for Rio de Janerio
21 November 1912 sailed Barry for Port Said
10 August 1914 requisitioned for service as a Collier unil 26 September 1914
1 November 1914 off Colombo closed by HMS YARMOUTH
HMS YARMOUTH
9 March 1915 at Tenedos supplied the Battleship HMS VENGEANCE with 427 tons of bunker coal
HMS VENGEANCE
15 March 1915 at Tenedos supplied the Battleship HMS VENGEANCE with 320 tons of bunker coal
24 April 1915 at Tenedos supplied the Battleship HMS VENGEANCE with an unspecified quantity of bunker coal
30 April 1915 sailed from Tenedos
5 May 1915 at the Dardenelles alongside HMS IMPLACABLE and supplied 675 tons of bunker coal
13 June 1915 served as a Collier until 10 April 1916
18 June 1915 at 38° 42N 24°50E closed by HMS CHATHAM
HMS CHATHAM
9 September 1915 off the Doro Channel sighted by HMS CHATHAM and challenged
20 April 1916 captured by German U-Boat U-69 (Kptlt. Ernst Wilhelms) and sunk by gunfire in the Atlantic 55 miles W x N of the Fastnet Rock on passage from Liverpool to Newport News