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Official Number: 96146
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Builder: J Readhead & Sons, West Yard, South Shields
Launched: 29 May 1899
Pennant No: Y 3.729
Into Service: 25 October 1915
Out of service: 30 May 1916
Fate: Captured, torpedoed & sunk 30 May 1916
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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 1899 launched by J Readhead & Sons, West Yard, South Shields as Yard Nr: 249 named Dalegarth for Clapham Steamship Co Ltd., (G E Macarthy, Manager), Newcastle
July 1899 completed
9 November 1903 passed up from Barry Island from Smyrna for Bristol
5 January 1911 when on passage in the Mediterrean her high pressure piston fractured and was towed into Algiers by the steamer Ethyl arriving on 6 January 1911
5 May 1911 the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail reported that –
16 January 1913 arrived the River Wear from Rotterdam
1 September 1913 passed Malta when on passage from Gaza to Leith
1914 sold to Hanson, Brown & Co (Newcastle on Tyne) Ltd., Newcastle – name unchanged
30 March 1914 towed into Portland by a Glasgow salvage steamer after being disabled off Gurnsey. The ship had had both the engine room and stoke hold flooded after heavy seas broke over her. The ship had drifted for many hours with her cargo of coal
25 October 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Expeditionary Force Transport – name unchanged – until 15 February 1916
March 1916 sold to City of London Shipping & Trading Co Ltd., (C G Ashdown, Manager) London – name unchanged
1 April 1916 re-deployed as a collier until …
30 May 1916 captured by German submarine U39 (Walter Forstmann) then torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean 12 miles NE Cape Corbelin, Algeria in position 37°18N 04°44E when on passage from Limni, Euboea Island, Greece to Glasgow carrying magnesite