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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
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:
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