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Background Data:  One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty in WW2 to augment the ships of the RFA

11 September 1926 launched by Fellows & Co Ltd, Great Yarmouth as Yard Nr 316 named FRED EVERARD as a steel spiritsail sailing barge for F. T. Everard & Sons Ltd, London.

October 1926 completed

27 December 1927 dragged her anchor off Whitstable in a gale with a cargo of 285 tons of coal. Went ashore at Tankerton. The Master and the crew were saved

December 1938 cut down and converted into a motor coaster and fitted with an oil engine.

1941 requisitioned by the Admiralty as a Stores Carrier

26 March 1941 at Scapa Flow alongside HMS HOOD

10 November 1942 at Scapa Flow alongside HMS KING GEORVE V delivering Naval Stores

24 September 1944 at Scapa Flow alongside HMS INDEFACTIGABLE delivering torpedoes

1944 Returned to her owners

9 May 1956 while on passage from Rochester, Kent to Totnes, Devon with a cargo of cement was in collision with m.v. Wall Brook and sank in the Princes Channel 8 miles off Margate. Deck Hand Ian Godfrey Hannay discharged dead – drowned