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Official Number:                        131284

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Builder:                                    Northumberland Ship Building Co Ltd., Howdon

Launched:                                22 July 1910

Pennant No:                             Y.3.1277 / C. 026

Into Service:                            19 September 1914

Out of service:                         1918

Fate:                                      Broken up April 1934

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:

22 July 1910 launched by Northumberland Shipbuilders Co Ltd., Howden-on-Tyne as Yard Nr: 174 named Dalecrest for Dalecrest Steamship Co Ltd., (Harold Taylor & Arthur Worthington, Managers) Liverpool

23 July 1910 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …

October 1910 completed

19 September 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Expeditionary Force Transport – name unchanged until 22 June 1915

22 August 1916 purchased by Sefton Steamship Co Ltd., (H E Moss & Co, Managers) Liverpool and renamed Mount Etna

11 September 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 4 October 1916

5 October 1916 re-deployed as a transport carrying sugar from Peru area until 26 January 1917

27 January 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 12 March 1917

13 March 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force transport carrying British oats from the River Plate are until 14 June 1917

15 June 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 26 July 1917

27 July 1917 re-deployed as a transport carrying sugar from Java until 11 December 1917

18 October 1917 off Cape Town, South Africa sighted by the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS HIMALAYA

12 December 1917 re-deployed as a Expeditionary Force transport carrying MT and stores from Avonmouth to Alexandria until 23 February 1918

24 February 1918 re-deployed as a transport on 2 voyages carrying wheat from the River Plate area until 23 November 1918

2 March 1918 when eastbound in the Perim Strait sighted by the Armed Boarding Steamer HMS PERTH

24 November 1918 re-deployed as a transport carrying wheat from the Gulf of Mexico

30 April 1934 arrived La Spezia for demolition by Italian ship breakers