Official Number: 117380
Laid down:
Builder: Wm Dobson & Co., Low Walker, Newcastle
Launched: 12 May 1903
Pennant No: Y 3.546
Into Service: 20 February 1915
Out of service: 21 October 1915
Fate: Mined and sunk 21 October 1915
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:
12 May 1903 launched by Wm Dobson & Co., Low Walker, Newcastle as Yard No: 125 named Cape Antibes for Cape Antibes Steamship Co Ltd., Glasgow
May 1903 completed at a cost of £32,000
19 June 1908 sailed Liverpool for Bristol
20 July 1908 sailed Portishead Dock for Glasgow
16 November 1909 arrived at Natal from Buenos Aires
14 December 1909 arrived at Tuticorin from Natal
16 March 1910 in the Firth of Forth Pilot William Gosard Brown and Pilot’s Boatman John Moir both believed to have drowned – entered as both discharged dead in the ships Articles
1 December 1914 on passage from Bombay to an English port
27 February 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 3 June 1915
28 February 1915 arrived the River Tyne from Hull
31 March 1915 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard
6 April 1915 arrived at Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff
4 June 1915 re-deployed as a Transport carrying sugar from Cuba – until 1 October 1915
1 October 1915 re-deployed as a collier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government a/c until …
7 October 1915 in Barry Graving Dock
21 October 1915 struck a mine laid by the German SMS Meteor (Wolfram von Knorr) on 7 June 1915 and sank at the entrance to the White Sea between Cape Gorodezki and Cape Volof in position 67°35N 41°16E while on passage from Barry to Archangel carrying coal with the loss of six lives
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SMS – Seiner Majestat Schiff – His Majesty’s Ship