Requisitioned Auxiliary – Clermiston

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Official Number:                      98883

Pennant No:                           Y 3.68 / Y 8.73

Laid down:

Builder:                                   Wm Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool

Launched:                               1895

Into Service:                            4 August 1914

Out of service:                         3 January 1918

Fate:                                      Wrecked 17 Janaury 1927

 

 

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 March 1895 launched by Wm Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool as Yard Nr: 491 named ROCIO for Orders & Handford Steamship Co Ltd., Newport

April 1895 completed

1909 purchased by Town Steamship Co Ltd., (C Graham & Co, Managers) Hull and renamed KING’S TOWN

1911 purchased by Gillespie & Nichol, Grangemouth and renamed CLERMISTON

2 July 1911 berthed at Aberdeen from Huelva with a cargo of copper ore

4 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged until 11 September 1914

7 October 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on Flamborough Head sailing north

16 October 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on Flamborough Head sailing north

21 November 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on Flamborough Head sailing north

26 November 1914 in the English Channel rescued some of the crew of the Collier Primo who had taken to the ships boats when attacked and sunk by a German U-Boat

28 March 1916 the following press report appeared in the Newcastle Journal  of this day

 

Press report 28 Mar 1916 Newcastle Journal

 

17 March 1917 escorted by HMS SAPPER from St Helens Bay off the Isle of Wight together with Armed Trawlers HMS’s SEA SEARCHER, ROSE and GOZO to escort her and the Colliers:- BYHOPE, CHANNEL TRADER, ORION, EKER, W. H. DWYER, ELLIDA, ALTAIR, CAPRI, and HELVERSOM toward Caen Roads.

27 May 1917 redeployed as a collier until 8 June 1917

9 June 1917 redeployed as a stores carrier – name unchanged until 3 January 1918

4 September 1917 off Ventnor escorted by HMS SAPPER

26 October 1917 in the Mediterrean subjected to a U-Boat attack – the torpedo missed

3 January 1918 redeployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport to Norway

14 June 1919 berthed at Dundee

3 July 1919 sailed Dundee

25 September 1924 at Cherbourg, France Boatswain John Rekewitz discharged dead from severe burns

1925 purchased by Reden A/B Carlos (B Carlstrom, Manager), Helsingborg and renamed ODEN

17 January 1927 wrecked between Haradskar & Arko