Official No:                               787

Builder:                                    Wm Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool

Launched:                               14 October 1882

Pennant No:                           

Into Service:                            1914

Out of service:                         12 October 1914

Fate:                                      Scuttled

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

Background Data:  One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 as a Block Ship

Career Data:

14 October 1882 launched by Wm Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool as Yard Nr: 262 name Wordsworth for Glover Bros., London

November 1882 completed

1906 purchased by Soc Ballenera de Magallanes, Punta Arenas and renamed Gobernador Bories and used on whaling duties

1914 purchased by the Admiralty for use as a blockship

12 October 1914 scuttled at Scapa Flow in Burra Sound between Hoy and Graemsay Islands in position 58.55 25N 03.18 33W