Official Number:                        134941

Laid down:

Builder:                                   Scott & Sons, Bowling, Glasgow

Launched:                               12 November 1913

Pennant No:                            1026 / Y 3.1635

Into Service:                           9 February 1915

Out of service:                        18 April 1918

Fate:                                     18 April 1918 torpedoed & 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:

12 November 1913 launched by Dundee Shipbuilding Co Ltd., Dundee as Yard Nr: 264 named Dalegarth Force for West Coast Shipping Co Ltd., (W S Kennaugh & Co., Managers) Whitehaven. 

13 November 1913 The Scotsman newspaper reported …

January 1914 completed

7 February 1914 sailed Blyth for Plymouth

17 February 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

25 April 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard

30 May 1914 sailed Weston Point on the Manchester Ship Canal for Aberdeen with a cargo of salt

18 September 1914 arrived and berthed at Roath Dock, Cardiff

15 October 1914 arrived and berthed at Bute West Dock, Cardiff from Belfast

22 October 1914 pass the Lloyds Signal Station on Mumbles Head sailing east

4 February 1915 arrived and berthed at Bute West Dock, Cardiff

9 February 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Expeditionary Force Transport – name unchanged – for carrying cross-Channel stores and railway materials until 2 June 1917

2 June 1915 entered the Eastham Locks on the Manchester Ship Canal from Birkenhead in ballast

3 June 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 13 June 1917

14 June 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport on the stone service; uplifting timer from ss Quantock at Berehaven; stone service again and finally was to have been programmed by the Home Trade Branch from 6 February 1918

20 March 1918 re-deployed as a collier until …

18 April 1918 torpedoed and sunk by the German Submarine UB-73 (Karl Neureuther) in the Bristol Channel 12 miles SW of Hartland Point in position 50°51N 04°24W on passage from Treport to Barry Roads in ballast with the loss of five lives. Four of the five are remembered with pride on the Tower Hill Memorial and one – Leading Seaman Ernest Shorrock RNVR is buried in the Manchester Southern Cemetery Section G, Non conformist section, grave 2329

Notes:

There is a possibility that the German submarine UB-86 (Hans Trenk) either assisted in or was responsible for this torpedo attack