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Official No: 123324
Builder: Swan & Hunter, Wallsend
Launched: 15 August 1907
Pennant No: Y 7.184
Into Service: 2 March 1917
Out of service: 1918
Fate: 1927 Broken up
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 August 1907 launched by Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd., Dundee as Yard Nr: 199 name G R CROWE for St. Lawrence & Chicago Steam Navigation Co Ltd., Dundee
September 1907 completed
11 September 1907 sailed Dundee
30 September 1907 berthed at Quebec
1910 rebuilt at Collingwood Shipyard, Collingwood, Ontario – name unchanged
17 September 1916 sailed Gravesend for New York
1916 purchased by G R Crowe Steamship Co Ltd., Toronto – name unchanged
21 August 1916 sailed Philadelphia to London
2 March 1917 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an oiler hired at 10sh 6p per d w t
7 December 1918 berthed at Sunderland from Scapa Flow
1918 purchased by Montezuma Transportation Co Ltd., Toronto – name unchanged
3 August 1919 at North River Pier B. Jersey City, New York State Fireman & Trimmer Richard Fitzgerald discharged dead – drowned
Fireman & Trimmer Richard Fitzgerald
7 October 1920 whilst under repair at the dry dock of shipyard of James S Shewan & Sons Inc at 27th Street, Brooklyn, oil vapours exploded in her forward hold which killed five men and injured forty others with a further three missing. The resulting fire spread to buildings near the ship. The ship’s Master was Captain Reginald G Green
Newspaper cutting from Western Daily Press of 9 October 1920
27 August 1923 taken in tow by the British Steamer Olna after she suffered a defect in her boilers. The hawser parted and the tow was taken up by the American steamer Pensylvania – reported by the Lloyds Agent at Tampico
1926 purchased by Warner Quinland CO. New York – name unchanged
1q/1927 reported broken up at Baltimore