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Official Number: 118343
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Builder: S.P. Austin & Son, Wear Dock, Sunderland
Pennant Nr: Y 3.96
Launched: 25 September 1903
Into Service: 8 August 1914
Out of service: 1919
Fate: Sank after a collision 7 May 1919
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:
25 September 1903 launched by S.P. Austin & Son, Wear Dock, Sunderland as Yard No: 224 named Factor for Factor Steamship Co Ltd., (Evans Fawcus, Managers,) Newcastle
26 September 1903 the Sunderland Daily Echo & Shipping Gazette reported …
November 1903 completed
21 January 1904 berthed at Shields
13 February 1904 sailed Blyth to Hamburg
4 October 1904 arrived the River Tyne from London
25 September 1905 arrived the River Tyne from London
5 December 1905 the Shields Daily News reported –
23 May 1909 sailed Sunderland for London
16 February 1910 passed Prawle Point sailing west bound
10 March 1910 berthed at Grangemouth from London
8 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 19 June 1915
27 August 1914 at Scapa Flow alongside HMS GRAFTON supplied 280 tons of bunker coal
HMS GRAFTON
16 October 1915 re-deployed as a collier – name unchanged – until 18 July 1917
18 October 1917 re-deployed by the Commerial Branch of the Admiralty on the Norwegian service
December 1917 purchased by Limerick Steamship Co Ltd., Limerick – name unchanged
31 January 1918 purchased by Claddah Steamship Co Ltd., Limerick – name unchanged
1918 purchased by Geo. Gibson & Co Ltd (R.A. Somerville, Managers). Leith – name unchanged
7 May 1919 sank after a collision with the former German steamer Ursus 6 miles NE of Scarborough while on passage from Antwerp to Leith in ballast.
ss Ursus
The crew of 21 were saved by the ss Ursus. The ships Master was Captain A R Stewart and the Chief Engineer Officer was P Lord