Official Number:                       109970

Builder:                                  Wm Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool                                                               

Pennant No:                            Y 3.1148

Launched:                               21 June 1898

Into Service:                           4 April 1916

Out of service:                        1917

Fate:                                     Torpedoed and sunk 6 July 1940

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:

21 June 1898 launched by Wm. Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool as Yard Nr: 560 named Easingwold for London & Northern Steamship Co Ltd., (Pyman Bros., Managers) London

25 June 1898 Lloyds List newspaper reported …

September 1898 completed

22 December 1899 passed St Vincent, CV sailing south bound

11 February 1900 sailed from Buenos Ayres

23 February 1900 passed Fernando Noronha, Brazil

6 March 1900 sailed from Las Palmas

11 July 1900 at 17°49N 25°00W Able Seaman Olaf Knudsen discharged dead from malaria

20 November 1906 at 43°55N 13°01W Fireman George Donovan discharged dead following an accident on board

29 April 1910 at sea Bosun Thomas Stapleton discharged dead from heart failure

25 July 1910 arrived Tralee from Rosario

5 April 1911 arrived the River Tyne from Rosario

24 June 1911 sailed Campana for Pensacola

10 October 1913 arrived Las Palmas from San Nicholas

25 October 1913 sailed Las Palmas for Port Arthur

28 February 1914 sailed New Orleans for London

15 April 1914 sailed Penarth for Buenos Ayres

11 January 1915 arrived at Hull from Ramallo

22 July 1915 arrived Las Palmas from Buenos Ayres

25 September 1915 arrived Buenos Ayres from Barry

23 November 1915 arrived at Las Palma frpm Rosario

2 December 1915 arrived Falmouth

6 December 1915 arrived at Belfast, Northern Ireland

4 April 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 7 May 1916

12 May 1916 sold to Italian Export Shipping Co Ltd., ( D P Bernett, Manager) London – name unchanged

8 June 1916 arrived Dakar from Cardiff

28 August 1916 re-deployed as a collier to Northern Russia for Russian Government a/c until 15 November 1916

16 November 1916 re-deployed on French Government Service as a Transport carrying shell steel cross-Channel and was then sold to the French for the State Railway Company on 18 March 1917

1917 sold to Societe Nationale d’Affretements, Le Havre and renamed P.L.M. 10

1928 sold to G & T Mabro, Alexandria and renamed Angele Mabro

20 March 1940 sailed Gibraltar in escorted convoy HG23 to Liverpool arriving 30 March 1940

14 April 1940 sailed Southend in escorted convoy OA129 to Port Talbot arriving 15 April 1940

2 May 1940 sailed Liverpool in escorted convoy OB140. This convoy reformed as escorted convoy OG28 on the 5 May 1940 to Gibraltar arriving there 8 May 1940

31 May 1940 sailed Gibraltar in escorted convoy HG32 to Liverpool arriving 10 June 1940

3 July 1940 sailed Bilbao to Cardiff

6 July 1940 torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-30 (Fritz-Julius Lemp) in the Atlantic WSW of Brest with the loss of all hands