Official Number: 135986
Laid down:
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham, Richardson, Low Walker Yard, Newcastle
Launched: 30 October 1913
Into Service: 12 October 1914
Out of service: 18 May 1918
Fate: 18 May 1918 torpedoed and sunk
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:
30 October 1913 launched by Swan, Hunter & Wigham, Richardson, Low Walker Yard, Newcastle as Yard Nr 924 named CHESTERFIELD for Great Central Railway Co, Grimsby.
December 1913 completed
12 October 1914 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as a Stores Carrier, name unchanged
29 October 1914 at Cromarty secured alongside HMS INVINCBLE to deliver naval stores
11 January 1915 at Cromarty secured alongside HMS DUKE OF EDINBURGH to deliver naval stores
1 October 1916 commissioned at Malta as HMS Chesterfield, Fleet Messenger No 64. The Captain was Lieutenant Albert E Mackrill RNR and the Chief Engineer was Engineer Lieutenant George H Jolliffe RNR
Engineer Lieutenant George H Jolliffe RNR
16 March 1917 at Suda Bay, Crete secured alongside HMS PELORUS to deliver naval stores
29 May 1917 arrived at Port Mudros
12 June 1917 sailed from Port Mudros
18 May 1918 whilst on passage from Milos to Malta she was torpedoed and sunk by the German UC-52 (Oberleutnant
zur See Hellmuth von Doemming) 42 miles NE by E ½ E from Malta in position 36.17 N 15.13 E with the loss of 4 lives
who are remembered with pride on the Plymouth and Chatham Naval memorials
