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Official Number: 136963
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Builder: J L Thompson & Sons, North Sands, Sunderland
Pennant No: D 06 / Y 3.2392
Launched: 21 February 1917
Into Service: 6 December 1917
Out of service: 1918
Fate: 4th Quarter 1949
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:
21 February 1917 launched by J L Thompson & Sons, North Sands, Sunderland as Yard No: 515 named Eastern City for St Just Steamship Co Ltd., (W R Smith & Sons, Managers) Cardiff
9 July 1917 completed
6 December 1917 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Expeditionary Force Transport – name unchanged – carrying British hay and oats until 11 October 1918
12 October 1918 re-deployed as a collier
1928 owners restyled as Reardon Smith Line Ltd., (S W R Smith & Sons Ltd., Managers) Cardiff – name unchanged
1933 sold to Nereus Steam Navigation Co Ltd., (E E Hadjilias, Manager) Syra and renamed Doris
4th Quarter of 1949 broken up at Antwerp by Belgian ship breakers
Notes:
Was the 2nd of 4 or 5 ships to bear this name for her original owners and was built as a replacement for an earlier vessel of the same name which had been sunk by gunfire on 9 April 1916