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Official Number:                       132074 

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Builder:                                    Alexander Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

Pennant No:                                      C 1280 / Y 3.??

Launched:                               7 June 1913

Into Service:                           10 October 1915

Out of service:                        3 April 1919

Fate:                                      17 June 1919 wrecked on Shipwash Sands while on passage Erith to Leith carrying oilcake 

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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:

7 June 1913  launched by Alexander Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen as Yard Nr: 487 named  for Wear Steam Shipping Co Ltd (Thomas Rose, Manager)  Sunderland

9 June 1913 the Aberdeen Press & Journal reported –

9 July 1913  register opened

July 1913 completed

2 October 1913 sailed from Grangemouth to Bruges

23 October 1913 arrived at Sunderland

27 October 1913 sailed Sunderland

14 October 1914 at 49°53.5N 5°51.5W in collision with HMS CAESAR

HMS CAESAR

19 October 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on Flamborough Head sailing north bound

10 October 1915 requisitioned for service as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying stores

13 June 1917 Littlehampton / France

14 June 1917 to 22 June 1917  served for one trip as a Collier

23 June 1917 to 3 April 1919 served as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying Royal Engineers’ stores London to France and ammunition supplies Littlehampton to France.

17 June 1919 was wrecked on Shipwash  Sands while on passage Erith to Leith carrying oilcake.