Official Number:                       112419

Laid down:

Builder:                                  Ropner & Co Ltd., Stockton

Launched:                              15 May 1900

Pennant No:                           Y 3.302

Into Service:                           9 October 1915

Out of service:                        29 April 1917

Fate:                                     29 April 1917 torpedoed and sunk

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:

15 May 1900 launched by Ropner & Son Ltd., Stockton as Yard Nr: 371 named Daleby for R Ropner & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool

18 May 1900 Lloyds List newspaper reported …

June 1900 completed

11 December 1901 sailed Newport, South Wales for Buenos Ayres

11 July 1902 arrived at Alexandria, Egypt

9 October 1908 sailed Glasgow for Genoa, Italy with a cargo of coal

9 October 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Transport carrying sugar – name unchanged – until 20 November 1915

21 November 1915 re-deployed as a collier until 2 June 1916

1916 owners became Sir R Ropner & Sons Ltd., West Hartlepool – name unchanged

1 April 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 2 May 1916

3 May 1916 re-deployed as a Transport carrying sugar until 6 July 1917

7 July 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 19 December 1916

2 December 1916 at Grassy Bay, Bermuda alongside HMS DRAKE supplying bunker coal

3 December 1916 at Bermuda alongside HMS CARNARVON supplying 1,349 tons of bunker coal

HMS CARNARVON

4 December 1916 at Bermuda alongside HMS ANTRIM and supplied 817 tons of bunker coal

7 December 1916 & 8 December 1916 at Bermuda a working party from the Armoured Cruiser HMS LEVIATHAN unloaded ammunition from the ship

HMS LEVIATHAN

19 December 1916 at Bermuda alongside HMS ANTRIM supplying 817 tons of bunker coal – over two days

HMS ANTRIM

20 December 1916 re-deployed as a Transport carrying wheat from the United States until 14 February 1917

15 February 1917 re-deployed as a collier until …

29 April 1917 torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-70 (Otto Wünsche) in the Atlantic 180 miles N W Fasnet Rock when on passage from Huelva, Spain to Garston carrying copper and silver ore with the loss of 25 lives including the Master

Notes:

1. Was the first of three ships to bear the name in the Ropner Fleet
2. Pennant Nr: previously allocated to Treneglos