Official Number:                135180

Builder:                                Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd, Bill Quay

Launched:                          1912

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

Background Data:  One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty in WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA.

1912 Launched by Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd, Bill Quay as yard Nr 180 named COMBE for Stephenson Clarke & Co, London

December 1912 completed

1915 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as an ammunition carrier, name unchanged.

14 October 1915 missing at sea – sailed Liverpool on 12 October 1915 to Archangel. Twenty three members of the crew recorded as lost at sea and remembered with pride on the Tower Hill Memorial.