Requisitioned Auxiliary – Cento

Cento

 

Cento

Cento after being renamed Hamarland

 

Official Number:                       131396

Laid down:

Builder:                                   J L Thompson & Sons Ltd., North Sands, Sunderland

Launched:                               26 September 1911

Pennant No:                            Y 3.292 / F 081

Into Service:                           4 September 1914

Out of service:                        1918

Fate:                                       Broken up December 1957

 

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:

26 September 1911 launched by J L Thompson & Sons Ltd., North Sands, Sunderland as Yard No: 483 named Cento for Corinthian Shipping Co Ltd., (R Nicholson & Sons Ltd., Managers), Liverpool

November 1911 completed

24 September 1913 arrived River Tyne (Tyne Dock) from London

4 September 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 24 August 1915

20 November 1914 when entering Barry Docks a moving buoy damaged her propeller – docked for repairs

6 April 1915 at Tirene disembarking ammunition to old 3rd Class Cruiser HMS HYACINTH

 

Hyacinth 02

HMS HYACINTH

 

7 April 1915 at Tirene alongside the old 3rd Class Cruiser HMS HYACINTH supplying 437 tons of bunker coal

10 April 1915 sailed from Niororo Island

11 April 1915 off Niororo Island alongside the old 3rd Class Cruiser HMS HYACINTH supplying 355 tons of bunker coal and provisions

16 April 1915 off Rufiji Delta alongside the light cruiser HMS WEYMOUTH and supplied 308 tons of bunker coal

17 April 1915 off Niororo Island alongside the old 3rd Class Cruiser HMS HYACINTH supplying 380 tons of bunker coal

18 April 1915 alongside collier Reichenfels

21 April 1915 off Rufiji Delta alongside the light cruiser HMS WEYMOUTH together with the collier Childers and jointly supplied 278 tons of bunker coal

25 April 1915 off Rufiji Delta alongside the light cruiser HMS WEYMOUTH and supplied 211 tons of bunker coal

28 April 1915 off Rufiji Delta alongside the light cruiser HMS WEYMOUTH and supplied 150 tons of bunker coal

29 April 1915 off Niororo Island alongside the old 3rd Class Cruiser HMS HYACINTH supplying 188 tons of bunker coal and later alongside the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS KINFAUNS CASTLE and supplied 71 tons of bunker coal

 

1 KILFAUNS Castle

HMS KINFAUNS CASTLE

 

30 April 1915 off Niororo Island alongside the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS KINFAUNS CASTLE and supplied 292 tons of bunker coal

6 May 1915 arrived at Zanzibar

25 June 1915 arrived at the River Tyne from London

14 February 1916 arrived at Abrolhos Rocks and in communication with the 2nd Class Crusier HMS VINDICTIVE

 

1 HMS VINDICTIVE WW1

HMS VINDICTIVE

 

17 January 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying hay from Glasgow to France for one trip and British timber from the UK to France until 16 August 1917

17 August 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying British Timber from the Gulf to France until 20 February 1918

11 September 1917 when on passage from Queenstown to Cardiff in ballast torpedoed in the Atlantic 10 miles SE True of the Old Head of Kinsale by the German submarine UC-31 (Kurt Siewart). Damaged and put back into Queenstown the lives of two of the crew were lost

21 February 1918 re-deployed as a collier

24 January 1919 sailed the River Tyne for Naples

1919 sold to Wm. R Davies Steamships Co Ltd., Liverpool – name unchanged

1930 sold to Slobodna Plovidba Topic dd (Ant. Topic. Manager) Susak and renamed Jurko Topic

1934 sold to “Austria” Schiffahrts A G, Vienna and renamed Wein

1936 ownership reverted to Slobodna Plovidba Topic dd (Ant. Topic. Manager) Susak

1937 sold to Curt Mattson Rederi Ab, Helsinki and renamed Hammarland

1942 sold to Rederi A/B Jmaica (sven Salen, Manager) Stockholm and renamed Karlshamn

1947 sold to John Nurminen Varustamot Oy, Helsinki and renamed Arno Nurminen

29 December 1957 arrived at Trieste for demolition by Sidemar