Official Number: 101813
Laid down:
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd., Bill Quay, Newcastle
Launched: 5 November 1892
Pennant No: Y.8.35 / Y.3.556
Into Service: 5 November 1914
Out of service: 1918
Fate: 22 February 1923 wrecked on Portland Breakwater, Dorset
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:
5 November 1892 launched by Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd., Bill Quay, Newcastle as Yard Nr: 41 and named Cragside for L S Carr & Co., Newcastle
8 November 1892 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …
December 1892 completed
10 July 1893 at Folkstone Quay, Kent Fireman John Stewart discharged dead – drowned when he fell between the vessel and the quay
26 December 1898 sailed the River Tyne for La Seyne with a cargo of coal
25 January 1901 sailed for Swansea
16 May 1903 sailed Fraserburgh
7 January 1904 berthed on the River Tees
27 May 1905 sailed Goole for Delfziel with a general cargo
5 November 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty Service as a Stores Carrier, name unchanged
10 June 1915 at Funchal, Maderia berthed alongside HMS OPHIR – supplied 850 tons of coal
30 December 1915 became a collier
15 March 1916 sailed Blyth
17 September 1917 redeployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying ammunition empties
26 September 1917 redeployed again as a collier
1918 returned to her owners, name unchanged
6 July 1920 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east
1921 owners now Arthur Andrew & Co Ltd., Swansea, name unchanged
20 November 1922 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east
16 January 1923 at Drogheda Fireman Albert Edward Jones discharged dead – while boarding the ship fell from the gangway and drowned
22 February 1923 was wrecked on Portland Breakwater, Dorset. The Dundee Evening Telegraph reported the next day …
