Requisitioned Auxiliary – Dayton

 

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Official Number:                       213095 

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Builder:                                  J Readhead & Sons, South Shields

Launched:                              8 October 1907

Pennant No:                           Y.7.208

Into Service:                           WW1

Out of service:                        WW1

Fate:                                     Torpedoed and sunk 1942

 

 

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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:

 

8 October 1907 launched by J Readhead & Sons, South Shields as Yard Nr: 404 named HARPORT by J & C Harrison Ltd., London

November 1907 completed

1912 purchased by Deutsche-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Hamburg and converted into a tanker – name unchanged

1914 purchased by Standard Oil Co (New Jersey), Bayonne and renamed DAYTON

WW1 acquired for Admiralty service as an oiler – name unchanged

1923 manger now J M Botts, New York(?)

1925 purchased by Olympic Steamship Co Inc., Seattle and renamed OLYMPIC

1940 purchased by Petroleum Heat & Power Co, Los Angeles – name unchanged

1941 purchased by Cia International de Vapores S A & Cia General de Bapores S A, Panama – name unchanged

22 January 1942 torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U130 in position 36.01N 75.30W while on passage from Curacao to Baltimore carrying a cargo of crude oil with the loss of her entire crew