Requisitioned Auxiliary – Forfar (WW1)

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Official Number:                      124328

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Builder:                                  Wm Doxford & Sos Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland

Launched:                              25 September 1911

Pennant No:                           Y 3.184

Into Service:                           18 December 1915

Out of service:                        4 December 1917

Fate:                                     4 December 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:

 

15 January 1907 launched by Wm Doxford & Sos Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland as Yard No: 377 named Billiter Avenue for J Sunley Ltd., London

March 1907 completed as Braziliana for British Maritime Trust Ltd., West Hartlepool

1907 purchased by Furness, Withy & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool – name unchanged

1915 purchased by Sutherland Steamship Co Ltd., West Hartlepool and renamed Forfar

18 December 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 27 January 1916

13 May 1916 re-deployed as a collier – name unchanged – until 13 July 1916

28 April 1917 re-deployed as a collier – until 25 May 1917

26 May 1917 re-deployed as a sugar carrier from Cuba until 18 August 1917

19 August 1917 re-deployed as a collier – until 4 December 1917

4 December 1917 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UC-17 in the English Channel 115 miles SW x W Lizard while on passage from Blyth to Gibraltar with an Admiralty cargo. 3 of her crew were lost