Requisitioned Auxiliary – Dilston

 

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Official Number:                        133308 

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Builder:                                   Short Bros Ltd., Palion Yard, Sunderland

Launched:                               20 February 1913

Pennant No:                            Y.2.35

Into Service:                           1916

Out of service:                         1919

Fate:                                      Deleted from Register 1960

 

 

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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:

 

20 February 1913 launched by Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Cowpen Quay, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 170 named DILSTON for Tyneside Line Ltd., North Shields

28 February 1913 the Morpeth Herald newspaper reported …

 

28 2 1913 Morpeth Herald Dilston

 

March 1913 completed

February 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Ammunition Carrier – name unchanged

1919 returned to her owners – name unchanged

1935 purchased by Zersson & Co. Rendsburg and renamed ARNIS

1941 owners became ‘Leonhardt’ Brennstoff Vertriebs GmbH, Kiel and renamed KEITUM

1946 Aquired by the USSR and renamed TSESAR KUNIKOV

1960 deleted from the Registers – final fate unknown