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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
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