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Official Number: 135478
Laid down:
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
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:
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
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
HMS ALBION
16 August 1915 at Mudros Bay a Naval Party from HMS EUROPA on board drawing Naval Stores
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
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