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Official Number:                        87466

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Builder:                                   Palmers’ Co Ltd., Willington Quay

Launched:                               9 April 1883

Pennant No:                            Y.4.217

Into Service:                           29 July 1914

Out of service:                        1919

Fate:                                     Bombed and sunk 22 April 1941

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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:

9 April 1883 launched by Palmers’ Co Ltd., Willington Quay as Yard No: 498 named PENARTH for Morel Bros.

May 1883 completed

1891 renamed TREHERBERT by her owners

1910 purchased by Shamrock Shipping Co., Belfast and renamed DIVIS

29 July 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged

23 April 1916 at Bo’ness moored alongside HMS FEARLESS supplying bunkers – 140 tons of coal supplied

HMS FEARLESS

1918 at Rosyth Hospital Able Seaman James Hill discharged dead from pneumonia after influenza

1919 returned to her owners – name unchanged

1925 purchased by G N Pittas Bros & Co. Chios and renamed DARMAS

22 April 1941 bombed and sunk by German aircraft in the Gulf of Patras