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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
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:
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
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