Official Number: 98823
Builder: Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, Middlesbrough
Launched: 19 June 1891
Pennant No: D 2016 / Y 8.33 / Y 3.1709
Into Service: 7 August 1914
Out of service: 1918
Fate: 26 February 1923 sank after collision
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:
19 June 1891 launched by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co Ltd., Middlesborough as Yard Nr: 344 named Echo
August 1891 completed
7 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty Service as an Expeditionary Force Tranport until 20 August 1914
6 November 1914 re-deployed as a Stores Carrier until 8 January 1915
28 June 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport for one trip carrying British hay and oats until 21 August 1917
22 August 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 21 September 1917
21 March 1918 re-deployed as a collier again until 9 July 1918
10 July 1918 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport for one trip carrying Royal Engineers’ stores until 14 November 1918
15 November 1918 served as a Transport with the Home Trade Branch and finally with the Commercial Branch
26 February 1923 sank in the North Sea off Terschelling, Friesland following a collision with the Portuguese Government steamer Coimbra on passage Hamburg to Gloucester carrying general cargo. Her 18 crew were rescued by the French Yainville and the British trawler Richmond