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Official Number:                      119164

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Builder:                                  Robert Duncan & Co, Port Glasgow

Launched:                              18 July 1904

Into Service:                           1915

Out of service:                        1916

Fate:                                     May 1916  sunk by gunfire

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

September 1904  completed

1915  requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Fleet Messenger name unchanged

16 May 1916 sunk SE of Crete by gunfire from U-38 in position 34.02N 27.32E – her crew survived