Official Number:                        128912

Laid down:

Builder:                                   Wm Dobson & Co, Low Walker

Launched:                               9 May 1910

Pennant No:                            Y 4.326 / G 1280

Into Service:                           5 August 1914

Out of service:                         1919

Fate:                                      Broken up 7 April 1969

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:

9 May 1910 launched by Wm Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool as Yard No: 774 named Camerata for La Tunisienne Steam Navigation Co Ltd., Swansea

10 May 1910 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …

October 1910 completed

12 June 1912 passed Gibraltar

30 July 1912 passed Sagres sailing northbound

4 June 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard when on passage for Rotterdam

2 July 1914 sailed La Goulette for Rotterdam

17 July 1914  sailed Rotterdam for Malta

5 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 4 July 1916

28 August 1914 at Tenedos alongside the armoured cruiser HMS BLENHEIM and supplied 200 tons of bunker coal

29 August 1914 during the Dardenelles blockade alongside the armoured cruiser HMS DEFENCE and supplied 600 tons of bunker coal

HMS DEFENCE

5 November 1914 berthed at Simonstown, South Africa from Barry

6 November 1914 at Simonstown, South Africa alongside the light cruiser HMS ASTRAEA and supplied 385 tons of bunker coal

3 September 1915 at Cardiff in the Mount Stuart Dry Dock

25 October 1915 lying in the Firth of Forth off Charlestown

26 October 1915 the Dundee Courier reported that –

15 July 1916 passed Perim

29 July 1916 arrived at Karrachi

10 August 1916 entered Perim Harbour

12 October 1916 re-deployed as an Expeditional Force Transport carrying MT around the Mediterranean until temporarily released on 6 December 1916

3 April 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditional Force Transport carrying stores around the Mediterranean until 23 November 1918

2 May 1917 on passage Avonmouth for Alexandria with military stores. Torpedoed by German submarine UC-37 (Otto Launburg) 9 miles North of Djidjelli, damaged, beached near there on 3rd, then refloated

24 November 1918 re-deployed as a transport carrying wheat from the River Plate area

1919 returned to her owners – name unchanged

1928 sold to Russell-Turner Steamship Co Ltd., Swansea and renamed Ronturn

1933 sold to F Grauds Shipping Co Ltd., Riga and renamed Everards

1939 sold to the Spanish Government and renamed Castillo Fuensaldanha

1942 sold to Express Nacional “Elcano” de la Marine Mercante, Cadiz – name unchanged

1955 sold Naviera Cru SA, Cadiz – name unchanged

1957 renamed Cru-Mediterraneo by her owners

1961 sold to Maritima Colonial y de Comercio SA, Cadiz – name unchanged

1962 renamed Sendye by her owners

18 December 1967 suffered a serious fire at Santander, Spain

7 April 1948 broken up locally