Requisitioned Auxiliary – Grangemouth

 

Grangemouth 

 

Official No:                              124259

Builder:                                   Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd., Grangemouth

Launched:                               3 February 1908

Pennant No:                            M22 / M1.08

Into Service:                            5 January 1915

Out of service:                         1 April 1919

Fate:                                      22 March 1939 Sank

 

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:

 

13 February 1908 launched by Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd., Grangemouth as YardNr 299 named Grangemouth for Rankine Line Ltd., Glasgow

March 1908 completed

5 January 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Armed Boarding Steamer and commissioned as HMS Grangemouth

4 July 1918 Engineer Lieutenant James Salter RNR appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

1 April 1919 decommissioned, refitted and returned to her owners as Grangemouth

1920 purchased by Geo. Gibson & Co Ltd., Glasgow – name unchanged

22 March 1939 in collision with Sudanese 17 miles NE of the Humber and sank 15 miles NNW of the Humber Light Vessel while on passage from Antwerp to Leith carrying gereral cargo