Requisitioned Auxiliary – Floridian

 

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Official Number:                      135478

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Builder:                                  Short Bros Ltd, Pallion Yard, Sunderland

Launched:                              31 May 1913

Into Service:                           3 August 1914

Out of service:                        10 July 1916

Fate:                                      4 February 1917 torpedoed and sunk

 

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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:

 

31 May 1913 launched by Short Bros Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 380 named Floridan for Frederick Layland & Co Ltd., Liverpool

July 1913 completed

3 August 1914 requisition for Admiralty service as a Squadron Supply ship – name unchanged

19 August 1914 at Scapa Flow berthed alongside HMS ENDYMION provisioning ship

 

HMS Endymion

HMS ENDYMION

 

17 May 1915 Petty Officer James H Haynes 111333 discharged dead – natural causes. He is buried in Ford Park Cemetery (formerly Plymouth Old Cemetery) in grave General M12.9

29 August 1915 at Mudros Bay a Naval Party from HMS ALBION on board drawing Naval Stores

 

1 HMS ALBION WW1

HMS ALBION

16 August 1915 at Mudros Bay a Naval Party from HMS EUROPA on board drawing Naval Stores

 

HMS EUROPA

HMS EUROPA

 

28 August 1915 at Mudros Bay a Naval Party from HMS ALBION onboard drawing Naval Stores

31 August 1915 at Mudros Bay a Naval Party from HMS EUROPA onboard drawing Naval Stores

31 October 1915 and 1 November 1915 at Salonika berthed alongside HMS ALBION provisioning ship

3 December 1915 to 5 December 1915 at Mudros Bay Naval Parties from HMS EURYALUS onboard drawing Naval Stores

 

HMS EURYALUS

HMS EURYALUS

 

16 December 1915 at Mudros Bay a Naval Party from HMS EUROPA onboard drawing Naval Stores

23 March 1916 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying stores from Canada

10July 1916 decommissioned and returned to her owners but still engaged on collecting stores from Canada

4 February 1917 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-54 in position 50°25N 15°00W while on passage from Halifax to Cherbourg with the loss of 5 lives – the Master, Chief Engineer and Wireless Operator were taken prisoner