Official Number:                        102775 

Laid down:

Builder:                                     Wm Gray & Co, West Hartlepool

Launched:                                 3 May 1893

Pennant No:                              Y.7.2

Into Service:                              1914

Out of service:                           1918

Fate:                                      Broken up January 1929

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:

3 May 1893 launched by David J Dunlop & Co., Inch Yard, Port Glasgow as Yard Nr: 218 named DELAWARE for Anglo American Oil Co Ltd., (J Hamilton, Managers), London

3 May 1893 Lloyds List newspaper reported …

June 1893 completed

1914 to 1918 requisitioned for Admiralty Service as an oiler – name unchanged

2 September 1917 in convoy with 19 other ships from Hampton Roads to the UK escorted by the light cruiser HMS HIGHFLYER

HMS HIGHFLYER

20 January 1918 joined a convoy sailing between Hampton Roads and Liverpool being escorted by the light cruiser HMS BERWICK

26 June 1918 part of a convoy between Hampton Roads and London and escorted by the Commissioned Escort Ship HMS NANERIC

9 July 1918 ship out of control through a defect in the steering as reported in HMS NANERIC’s ships log

January 1929 arrived Blyth for demolition by Hughes Bolckow Shipbreaking Co.