Requisitioned Auxiliary – Donax

 

 DONAX

 

Official Number:                       135268

Laid down:

Builder:                                   Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd., Jarrow

Launched:                               2 September 1913

Pennant No:                            Y.7.124

Into Service:                           8 July 1916

Out of service:                        4 September 1916

Fate:                                     August 1933 broken up

 

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:

 

2 September 1913 launched by Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd., Jarrow as Yard Nr: 835 named Donax for Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd., London

5 September 1913 the Jarrow Express newspaper reported …

 

5 9 1913 Jarrow Express Donax

 

September 1913 completed

8 July 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an oiler – named unchanged

4 September 1916 returned to her owners

1 February 1918 stopped and boarded by the Armed Boarding Steamer HMS PERTH and allowed to proceed

11 June 1918 sighted by HMS DIANA

29 June 1918 off Perim

15 August 1918 off Perim

30 October 1918 boarded by HMS TOPAZ and allowed to proceed

19 May 1925 sailed Gibraltar

26 May 1925 arrived at Port Said

6 September 1927 passed Gibraltar for Suez for orders

29 October 1930 laid up at Genoa

July 1933 sold “as lies Genoa” for scrap

19 August 1933 arrived Savona for demolition by Italian shipbreakers