Official Number: 127107
Laid down:
Builder: Wm Dobson & Co, Walker on Tyne
Launched: 24 February 1910
Into Service: 29 September 1914
Out of service: 27 September 1916
Fate: Wrecked on 27 September 1916
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:
24 February 1910 launched by Wm Dobsob & Co, Walker on Tyne as Yard Nr: 165 named Cydonia for Stag Line Ltd., (Joseph Robinson & Sons, Managers) North Shields
8 March 1910 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …
April 1910 completed at a cost of £30,226
19 June 1911 sailed Sulina for Leith
30 January 1913 sailed Suez for Kurrachee
19 February 1913 sailed Kurrachee for Dunkirk
3 May 1913 arrived at Port Said while on passage from Barry to Aden
29 September 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier
6 February 1915 and 7 February 1915 at Loch Ewe alongside HMS COLUMBELLA supplying her with bunker coal
8 February 1915 at Loch Ewe cast off from HMS COLUMBELLA
14 April 1915 at Scapa Flow alongside HMS DONEGAL. Supplied 640 tons of bunker coal
10 September 1915 at Scapa Flow alongside HMS DONEGAL. Supplied 560 tons of bunker coal
27 September 1916 wrecked on Castle Rocks, Holy Island while on passage from Burntisland to Brest with a cargo of coal. There were no casualties