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Official Number: 113136
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Builder: R Williamson & Son, Workington
Pennant No: Y 3.495 / 821
Launched: 2 May 1905
Into Service: 19 January 1915
Out of service: 11 May 1917
Fate: Captured and sunk 11 May 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:
2 May 1905 launched by R Williamson & Son, Workington as Yard Nr: 186 named Stock Force for West Coast Shipping Co Ltd., Whitehaven
11 May 1907 Lloyds List newspaper reported –
May 1905 completed
8 November 1905 arrived at Blyth from the River Tyne
10 February 1906 arrived at Blyth from Portsmouth
21 August 1907 arrived at the River Tyne from Fraserboro’
9 August 1909 sailed Grangemouth for Burntisland arriving the same day to load cargo
10 August 1909 sailed Burntisland for Southwick with a cargo of coal
21 August 1909 sailed Grangemouth for Calais, France with a cargo of coal
26 May 1910 arrived at Grangemouth from Lynn with a general cargo
23 July 1912 sailed Granton for Shoreham with cargo of coal
1914 sold to Thomas Rose, Sunderland and registered as Earl of Durham
19 January 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Collier – name unchanged – until 18 March 1915
1916 sold to Care & Eidman Ltd., Cardiff and renamed Tarpeia
19 October 1916 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying road materials, stone etc between Guernsey / Treport until 13 February 1917
5 April 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport until …
11 May 1917 captured by the German submarine UB-18 (Claus Safrenz) then sunk with explosices in the English Channel 9 miles N Port en Bassein near Caen in position 49.30N 00.49W when on passage from Alderney to Treport carrying stone