Requisitioned Auxiliary – Fulgent

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Official Number:                      132052

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Builder:                                  Short Bros. Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland

Launched:                               29 August 1910

Pennant No:                           Y 3.151

Into Service:                           10 August 1914

Out of service:                        30 April 1915

Fate:                                     30 April 1915 torpedoed, captured & sunk with explosives

 

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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:

 

9 August 1910 launched by Short Bros. Ltd., Pallion Yard, Sunderland as Yard No: 356 named Fulgent for Westoll Line (James Westoll, Manager) Sunderland

September 1910 completed

3 November 1910 arrived at Leith Docks from London

27 December 1910 sailed Leith Docks for London

2 February 1911 arrived at Leith Docks from London

13 July 1914 sailed Port Talbot

27 July 1914 berthed at Port Talbot

3 August 1914 sailed Zeebrugge

5 August 1914 arrived at Newport

10 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Collier – name unchanged

17 October 1914 berthed at Barry Dock, Cardiff in ballast

22 November 1914 at Scapa Flow alongside HMS SAPPHIRE supplied 212 tons of bunker coal

HMS Sapphire

HMS SAPPHIRE

22 December 1914 at Scapa Flow alongside HMS SAPPHIRE supplied 270 tons of bunker coal

30 April 1915 torpedoed then captured by German submarine U-30 and sunk with explosives in the Atlantic 20 miles WNW of the Blaskets while on passage from Cardiff to Scapa Flow carrying coal with the loss of two lives