Official Number: 114515
Builder: J Readhead & Sons Ltd., South Shields
Pennant No: Y 3.1397
Launched: 25 January 1902
Into Service: 30 December 1916
Out of service: 1918
Fate: 10 December 1932 foundered
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:
25 January 1902 launched by J Readhead & Sons Ltd., West Yard, South Shields as Yard Nr: 359 named Eastville for Ville Steamships Ltd., (Balls & Stansfield, Managers) North Shields
February 1902 completed
12 August 1903 passed Beachy Head sailing west from the Tyne on passage to Genoa
13 August 1903 passed St Catherine’s Point sailing west on passage to Genoa
17 April 1906 in the Seamans Hospital, Constantinople Able Seaman George Constance discharged dead from a tumor on the neck
25 March 1907 at the Civil Hospital, Karachi Steward Harry R Smith discharged dead from heart failure
19 July 1907 at 20.05N 38.50E Coal Trimmer Salvatore Abdilla discharged dead from injuries sustained after falling from stoke hold ladder
28 October 1916 arrived at New York from Le Havre
30 December 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 31 January 1918
1 September 1918 served as a transport carrying wheat from the Gulf of Mexico and then finally as a transport for the Commercial Branch carrying phosphates
11 September 1918 purchased by Britain Steamship Co Ltd., (Watts, Watts & Co., Managers) London and renamed Chatham
1929 purchased by Vassillios Livanos, Chios and renamed Timios Stavros
10 December 1932 sprang a leak in the Mediterranean when on passage from Barry, South Wales to Istanbul carrying coal and foundered sixty miles from Zante in position 36.53N 19.22E