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Official Number: 133308
Laid down:
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
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:
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 …
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