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Official Number: 98557
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Builder: Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co, Cowpen Quay, Blyth
Pennant No: Y 3. xx
Launched: 8 January 1891
Into Service: 10 January 1915
Out of service: 18 June 1917
Fate: Bombed and sunk 3 April 1941
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:
8 January 1891 launched by Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Cowpen Quay, Blyth as Yard Nr: 77 named CAIRNIE for Matthew Taylor, Aberdeen
9 January 1891 the Shields Daily Gazette reported …
1891 register opened at Aberdeen as Nr 5/1891 in the Register Book
March 1891 completed
16 June 1891 sailed from Stornoway for Stettin with a cargo of 200 tons of herrings
18 June 1891 stranded at or near Jederon’s Reef, Norway. Seven days later managed to get off, was repaired at Stavanger and brought to Aberdeen
19 June 1917 requisitioned for service as a Collier working with the Dublin & S.E. Railway & Irish Railway Executive until 28 September 1917
24 February 1941 sailed from the River Clyde in escorted convoy WN90 to Methil arriving 27 February 1941
14 March 1941 sailed from Oban in escorted convoy WN99 to Methil arriving 18 March 1941
3 April 1941 was bombed and sunk by German aircraft in the North Sea 7 miles S x W of Tod Head, near Stonehaven. All of her crew were rescued