Official Number:                       118321

Builder:                                   Wm Doxford & Sons Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland                                                               

Pennant No:                            Y 3.132

Launched:                               22 August 1903

Into Service:                           25 March 1916

Out of service:                        1918

Fate:                                     Broken up 1933

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

Background Data:  One of a group of additional ships requisitioned by the Admiralty to augument the RFA during WW1

Career Data:

22 August 1903 launched by Wm Doxford & Sons Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 310 named E O Saltmarsh for Pensacola Trading Co Ltd., (Watts, Watts & Co Ltd., Managers) London

27 August 1903 the Lloyds List newspaper reported –

September 1903 completed

25 September 1903 sailed Sunderland for Tampico

28 October 1903 arrived at Tampico

2 December 1904 sailed Pensacola for Tampico

17 February 1907 arrived Liverpool

24 May 1907 passed the Lloyds Signal Sation at Dungeness sailing east bound

15 March 1911 sailed from Liverpool for Havana, Cuba

27 December 1911 arrived at Havana, Cuba

9 July 1912 arrived at Liverpool from Tampa

20 September 1913 sailed from Liverpool

11 October 1913 arrived at Havana, Cuba from Liverpool

15 January 1914 sailed from Liverpool

7 February 1914 arrived at Havana, Cuba from Liverpool

10 October 1914 at Dover alongside the Light Cruiser HMS SAPPHIRE supplying 111 tons of bunker coal

HMS SAPPHIRE

5 February 1915 arrived at Pensacola

3 May 1915 arrived at Norfolk VA from Swansea

11 July 1915 arrived at Liverpool from Pensacola

25 March 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 30 April 1916

1 May 1916 re-deployed as a transport carrying sugar until 7 July 1916

8 July 1916 re-deployed as a collier again and was then temporarily released on 15 August 1916

9 February 1917 arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone sailing later the same day

2 April 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying timber until 4 June 1917

5 June 1917 re-deployed as a collier yet again until the end of the war

29 October 1917 sailed Dakar in a convoy being escorted by the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS MONTAGUE

31 October 1917 while in convoy spoken to by the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS MONTAGUE

18 February 1918 arrived at Aden

5 March 1919 sailed Port Natal for Colombo

24 March 1921 off Colombo Harbour spoke to the light cruiser HMS CAROLINE

18 July 1918 at Aden

1922 owners became New Pensacola Trading Co Ltd., London – name unchanged

2 March 1922 sailed Madras for Port Said

31 March 1922 sailed Natal for Bombay

29 June 1922 sailed Madras for Port Natal

15 June 1923 sailed from Leith Docks, Edinburgh for Middlesborough

1923 sold to Emil R Retzlaff, Stettin and renamed Wanaheim

1931 sold to “Pommerania” Schiffahrts GmbH, Stettin – name unchanged

April 1933 sold at Stettin for £2,200 for scrap

20 April 1933 sailed Stettin in tow of a tug Fairplay XIV

29 April 1933 arrived Rosyth for demolition by Metal Industries

10 May 1933 demolition commenced

1 June 1933 hulk towed to Charlestown for final demolition