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Official Number:                      132063

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Builder:                                  J Priestman & Co Ltd, Southwick, Sunderland

Launched:                              25 September 1911

Pennant No:                           Y 3.303

Into Service:                           8 September 1914

Out of service:                        20 July 1917

Fate:                                     20 July 1917 torpedoed & 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:

25 September 1911 launched by J Priestman & CO Ltd., Southwick, Sunderland as Yard No: 234 named Fluent for James Westoll Ltd., Sunderland

November 1911 completed

8 September 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 3 April 1915

5 May 1916 re-deployed as a collier – name unchanged – until 10 June 1916

11 June 1916 re-deployed as a sugar carrier from Java – until 30 October 1916

1 November 1916 re-deployed as a collier – until 30 December 1916

31 December 1916 re-deployed as a wheat carrier from Australia until 22 May 1917

23 May 1917 re-deployed as a cargo carrier from the USA until 20 July 1917

20 July 1917 sunk a mine laid by German submarine UC-65 in the English Channel 16 miles south of Anvil Point in position 50.26N 01.52½W while on passage from New York to London with a cargo of steel and oats. All 29 of her crew were saved