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 …
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