Official Number: 127460
Laid down:
Builder: Sir Raylton Dixon & Co., Middlesborough
Pennant No: Y 3.11599 / C 1860
Launched: 23 June 1910
Into Service: 1 April 1917
Out of service: 1918
Fate: 3rd Quarter 1933 broken up
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
23 June 1910 launched by Sir Raylton Dixon & CO., Middlesborough as Yard Nr: 551 named Canadian Transport for Empire Transport Co Ltd., (Houlder Bros & Co Ltd., Managers), West Hartlepool
July 1910 completed
1 April 1917 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged until 26 June 1917
27 June 1917 re-deployed as a Transport carrying hay from Bombay until 19 October 1917
20 October 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 21 December 1917
22 December 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying cross – Channel hay for one trip until 10 January 1918
11 January 1918 re-deployed as a collier until 19 March 1918
28 March 1918 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying Indian grain until 29 April 1918
18 April 1918 stopped and boarded off Perim by the Armed Boarding Steamer HMS PERTH – all found correct and allowed to proceed
30 April 1918 re-deployed as a collier until 19 July 1918
20 July 1918 re-deployed as a Transport carrying wheat from the River Plate area until 26 September 1918
27 September 1918 re-deployed as a collier until 30 November 1918
1 December 1918 re-deployed as a Transport carrying wheat from the Gulf
14 February 1919 arrived at Falmouth
28 March 1919 sailed Barry for Las Palmas
1 July 1919 passed Dungeness
22 August 1919 from Barry arrived at St. Vincent (CV)
27 December 1927 at Rosario Fireman Andrew Sullivan accidentally drowned while bathing
3rd quarter 1933 broken up in Italy