Requisitioned Auxiliary – Fenay Lodge

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Official Number:                        118368

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Builder:                                   J.L. Thompson & Sons Ltd, North Sands, Sunderland

Pennant Nr:                             Y 3.429

Launched:                               19 November 1903

Into Service:                            7 November 1914

Out of service:                         6 March 1917

Fate:                                      Torpedoed and sunk 6 March 1917

 

 

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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 November 1903 launched by J.L. Thompson & Sons Ltd, North Sands, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 413 named Fenay Lodge for Charles Cockroft, London

28 November 1903 the Lloyds List newspaper reported…

 

28 11 1903 Lloyds List Fenay Lodge 1

28 11 1903 Lloyds List Fenay Lodge 2

 

April 1904 completed

1907 owners became Fenay Steamship Co Ltd., (Charles Cockroft (Manager), London – name unchanged

29 April 1912 arrived Las Palmas from La Plata

1 July 1912 arrived Buenos Aires from the River Clyde

19 August 1913 arrived at Cape Town from Rosario

12 September 1913 arrived at Hull having sailed from Rosario via Cape Town

17 January 1914 sailed the River Tyne for Buenos Aires

16 February 1914 arrived at Buenos Aires having sailed from the River Tyne

7 November 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Collier – name unchanged – until 8 October 1915

22 December 1914 at Bermuda alongside HMS EDINBURGH CASTLE supplying 432 tons of bunker coal

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HMS EDINBURGH CASTLE

14 April 1915 off pay voyage from 14 April 1915 to 1 June 1915

9 November 1915 passed Gibraltar sailing west

18 December 1915 re-deployed as a collier until 21 January 1916 – name unchanged

26 April 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 26 June 1916 – name unchanged

18 September 1916 arrived Norfolk VA from New Orleans when on passage to Nantes, France

2 January 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport – name unchanged – carrying timber

6 March, 1917 torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine U-44 in the Atlantic in position 51º 42N 16º 11W while on passage from Mobile to Cherbourg carrying pit props with the loss of four lives