Official Number:                     112797

Laid down:

Builder:                                  Osbourne, Graham & Co, North Hylton, Sunderland

Pennant No:                           Y 3.380

Launched:                              4 December 1900

Into Service:                            9 October 1914

Out of service:                         27 November 1917

Fate:                                      Torpedoed & sunk

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:

4 December 1900 launched by Osbourne, Graham & Co, North Hylton, Sunderland
as Yard No: 113 named Eastfield for Eastfield Steamship Co Ltd

January 1901 completed

9 April 1902 arrived at the River Tyne from Mobile USA

1903 sold to Field Line (Cardiff) Ltd., (E Jones & Co Ltd., Managers) Cardiff – name unchanged

20 December 1903 sailed Galatz for Cardiff

December 1909 vessel stranded at Beachy Head – see image above

15 February 1911 at Cardiff Docks 1st Engineer Daniel Hughes discharged dead from a fractured skull

9 October 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged

15 December 1915 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Portland Donkeyman William Issac discharged dead from pneumonia

6 July 1916 off pay voyage until 1 August 1916

18 July 1917 deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying ammunition empties until 30 July 1917

31 July 1917 deployed as a collier until 17 September 1917

18 September 1917 deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport for one trip carrying ammunition empties until 26 September 1917

27 September 1917 deployed again as a collier until 10 October 1917

11 October 1917 deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport for one trip carrying ammunition empties between Dunkirk and Newport, Monmouthshire until 18 October 1917

19 October 1917 deployed again as a collier until 27 October 1917

28 October 1917 deployed again as an Expeditionary Force Transport for one trip carrying ammunition empties between Dunkirk and Newport, Monmouthshire until 4 November 1917

5 November 1917 deployed again as a collier unti  ….

27 November 1917 torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-57 (Otto Steinbrinck) in the English Channel 7 miles ESE of Dodman Point in position 50º14N 04º.42W while on passage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Dieppe with a cargo of coal with the loss of one life – Fireman & Trimmer John Camanda