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Official Number: 128910
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Builder: Wm Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool
Launched: 8 April 1910
Pennant No: Y.3.231
Into Service: 1914
Out of service: 1919
Fate: 1927 ran aground & wrecked
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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 April 1910 launched by Wm Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool as Yard Nr: 773 named DJERISSA for La Tunisienne Steam Navigation Co Ltd., Swansea
12 April 1910 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …
May 1910 completed
19 May 1913 arrived on the River Tyne from Rotterdam
17 June 1914 sailed Marseilles for La Goulette
1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service, initially as a Collier – name unchanged
19 September 1914 at Portland while at anchor was struck by the British Steamer Orkla causing considerable damage to the DJERISSA
15 March 1915 communicated with HMS GLOUCESTER (visual) while on passage from Sierra Leone to St Vincent
31 March 1915 at La Rocas alongside HMS LIVERPOOL supplying bunker coal
9 February 1916 became a decoy ship and also operated as MALLINA, SOLAX and WOKING
28 April 1916 at Porto Grande a working party from HMS KING ALFRED collecting Naval Stores
12 May 1916 at Mordeira Bay alongside HMS KING ALFRED supplying 667 tons of bunker coal
25 and 16 May 1916 at Porton Grande alongside HMS KING ALFRED supplying 618 tons of bunker coal
15 November 1916 at Porto Grande alongside HMS KING ALFRED supplying 1,128 tons of bunker coal
1 December 1916 at Freetown a working party of 50 hands from HMS KING ALFRED onboard
16 May 1918 decoy ship service ended
1919 returned to her owners as DJERISSA
21 November 1927 was wrecked on Newbiggin Shoal, Cresswell while on passage from Emden to the Tyne in ballast