Official Number:                        114648

Laid down:

Builder:                                   J L Thompson, North Sands, Sunderland

Launched:                               16 October 1902

Pennant No:                            Y.2.110

Into Service:                           WW1

Out of service:                        24 February 1917

Fate:                                     Torpedoed and sunk 24 February 1917

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:

16 October 1902 launched by J L Thompson, North Sands, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 404 named DOROTHY for John Ness, Sunderland

January 1903 completed

WW1 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Ammunition Carrier – name unchanged

 24 February 1917 torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U35 in the Mediterranean about 25 miles SE of Pantelleria Island while on passage from Tunis to Salonica with the loss of 6 lives. The details of those lost are remembered with pride on the Tower Hill Memorial