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Official Number: 119153
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Builder: A Rodger & Co., Port Glasgow
Launched: 2 August 1904
Pennant No: Y 2.9 / Y 3.653 / Y 8.72
Into Service: 17 September 1914
Out of service: 4 April 1919
Fate: 31 January 1944 torpedoed and 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:
2 August 1904 launched by A Rodger & Co., Port Glasgow as Yard Nr: 379 named Emerald for William Robertson, Glasgow
August 1904 completed
23 December 1908 sailed Rouen for Grangemouth
23 February 1909 sailed Burriana for Glasgow
17 September 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Ammunition Carrier until 29 April 1915
30 April 1915 re-deployed as a Collier until 21 May 1916
22 May 1916 re-deployed as a Transport with the Office of Works carrying timber until 6 June 1916
7 June 1916 re-deployed, again, as a Collier until 13 November 1916
14 November 1916 to 1918 re-deployed as a Stores Carrier
4 April 1919 returned to her owners
11 January 1932 berthed at Avonmouth with a cargo of coal
13 January 1932 sailed Avonmouth
31 July 1939 sailed Sunderland
27 July 1940 sailed Methil in unescorted convoy FS234 to Southend arriving 29 July 1940
3 August 1940 sailed Southend in unescorted convoy FN241 to Wisbech arriving 5 August 1940
19 August 1942 sailed Methil in escorted convoy EN126 to Loch Ewe arriving 21 August 1942. RFA GRAY RANGER also sailed in this convoy
23 March 1943 sailed Loch Ewe in unescorted convoy WN406A arriving at Methil on 25 March 1943
17 May 1943 sailed Methil in unescorted convoy EN230 to the River Clyde arriving 19 May 1943
31 January 1944 torpedoed and sunk by German S-Boot S-142 SE off Beachy Head on passage from Middlesborough to Pool carrying coal with the loss of 12 lives