Official Number: 123964
Laid down:
Builder: Bartram & Sons Ltd., South Dock, Sunderland
Launched: 12 February 1910
Pennant No: G 128 / Y 3.1218
Into Service: 2 November 1915
Out of service: 1918
Fate: 9 February 1962 broken up
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 February 1910 launched by Bartram & Sons Ltd., South Dock, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 215 named Mozart for Orpheus Shipping Co Ltd., (Jenneson, Taylor & Co., Managers), Sunderland
14 February 1910 the Sunderland Daily Echo newspaper reported …
March 1910 completed
1 March 1910 arrived at Port Talbot
21 March 1910 at Roath Dock & Basin in Cardiff Docks
29 March 1910 passed Gibraltar sailing east bound
28 May 1910 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on Dungeness sailing east bound for Rotterdam
20 July 1911 arrived the River Tyne from Hamburg
29 July 1911 sailed the River Tyne for Port Said
5 October 1911 passed Gibraltar sailing east bound
4 February 1912 passed Gibraltar sailing west bound
18 February 1912 passed Gibraltar sailing east bound
11 August 1912 passed Beachy Head sailing west bound from the River Tyne
11 April 1913 passed Tarifa, Spain
2 November 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Expeditionary Force Transport – name unchanged – carrying Canadian stores until 29 September 1916
17 October 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 30 November 1916
1 December 1916 re-deployed as a transport carrying wheat from the United States until 13 February 1917
1917 purchased by W & C T Jones Steamship Co Ltd., (W & C T Jones, Managers) Cardiff and renamed Dailwen
14 February 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 18 April 1917
19 April 1917 re-deployed as a transport carrying wheat from the United States or Canada until 15 June 1917
16 June 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 28 October 1917
6 August 1917 to 11 August 1917 at Simonstown South Africa – A working party from the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS HIMALAYA received onboard each day
30 August 1917 arrived at Zanzibar harbour
13 September 1917 at Kilwa Kisiwani alongside 2nd class cruiser HMS CHALLENGER supplying her with 400 tons of bunker coal
HMS CHALLENGER
18 September 1917 in Kilwa Kisiwani harbour
20 September 1917 at Kilwa Kisiwani alongside the light cruiser HMS HYACINTH supplying her with 380 tons of bunker coal
HMS HYACINTH
22 September 1917 at Kilwa Kisiwani the gunboat HMS THISTLE berthed alongside and was supplyed with 60 tons of bunker coal
23 September 1917 sailed from Kilwa Kisiwani
24 September 1917 arrived at Lindi Harbour. The Monitor HMS SEVERN berthed alongside and was supplied with 143 tons of bunker coal
25 September 1917 at Lindi Harbour the monitor HMS MERSEY berthed alongside
26 September 1917 at Lindi Harbour supplied HMS MERSEY with 120 tons of bunker coal. Sailed from Lindi Harbour
27 September 1917 arrived at Kilwa Kisiwani harbour
1 October 1917 at Kilwa Kisiwani alongside 2nd class cruiser HMS CHALLENGER
2 October 1917 while at Kilwa Kisiwani alongside 2nd class cruiser HMS CHALLENGER supplied her with bunker coal
18 October 1917 at Kilwa Kisiwani the gunboat HMS THISTLE berthed alongside
19 October 1917 at Kilwa Kisiwani the gunboat HMS THISTLE which was berthed alongside was supplyed with 84 tons of bunker coal. Also the armed boarding ship HMS LUNKA then berthed alongside
20 October 1917 at Kilwa Kisiwani the armed boarding ship HMS LUNKA was supplied with 150 tons of bunker coal before casting off
21 October 1917 at Kilwa Kisiwani harbour the monitor HMS SEVERN berthed alongside
22 October 1917 at Kilwa Kisiwani harbour the monitor HMS MERSEY berthed alongside. Supplied HMS SEVERN with 120 tons of bunker coal
23 October 1917 at Kilwa Kisiwani harbour supplied the 2nd class cruiser HMS MINERVA with 435 tons of Powell Duffryn bunker coal
24 October 1917 at Kilwa Kisiwani harbour the 2nd class cruiser HMS MINERVA cast off and the Monitor HMS MERSEY came alongside to be supplied with 49 tons of bunker coal
26 October 1917 in Zanzibar Harbour
27 October 1917 sailed from Zanzibar Harbour
28 October 1917 arrived at Zanzibar Harbour
29 October 1917 sailed from Zanzibar Harbouh and re-deployed as a transport carrying sugar from Mauritius until 16 Februaryr1918
23 January 1918 sailed Dakarwith four other ships escorted by the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS MONTAGUE
7 February 1918 departed convoy
17 February 1918 re-deployed as a collier until 3 April 1918
4 April 1918 re-deployed as a transport carrying sugar from Cuba until 29 June 1918
30 June 1918 re-deployed as a collier until 11 August 1918
11 July 1918 sailed Aden
12 August 1918 re-deployed as a transport carrying wheat from the United States and Australia
1919a purchased by Ardover Steamship Co Ltd., (W Roberts & Son, Manager) Liverpool – name unchanged
1919b purchased by Times Shipping Co Ltd., (Peacock, Davies & Parker, Managers) Cardiff – name unchanged
1920 renamed Haigtown by her owners
23 August 1920 arrived at Newport News from the River Tyne
1924 purchased by Sanderson, Matthew Shipping Co Ltd., Cardiff and renamed Dailwen
31 January 1926 sailed from St. Vincent, Cape Verde for Avonmouth
18 June 1927 sailed from Las Palmas for Avonmouth
13 December 1927 arrived at Avonmouth from the River Plate with a cargo of grain
1932 purchased by M S Polemis (Goulandris Bros., Managers) Andros and renamed Theomitor
1948a purchased by Cia de Nav. Castro-Riva SA., Panama and renamed Riva
1948b purchased by Sadikzade Rusen Ogullari KS, Istanbul and renamed Rusen
9 February 1962 arrived Kalafatyeri, Turkey for demolition by Orhan Sadikoglu
Notes:
Pennant Nr: as a collier previously allocated to Mozart