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Official Number: 214615
Builder: Union Iron Works Co., San Francisco
Pennant No: Y.7 195
Launched: 24 October 1916
Into Service: December 1916
Out of service: 1918
Fate: August 1954 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:
24 October 1916 launched by Union Iron Works Co., San Francisco as Yard Nr: 129 named H C Folger for Atlantic Refining Co Inc., Philadelphia
December 1916 completed and requisitioned for Admiralty service as an oiler – name unchanged
30 June 1917 at sea while on passage from Kirkwall to Norfolk, VA in ballast at 59.08N 15.38W stopped and boarded by HMS PATIA and allowed to proceed
1918 returned to her owners name unchanged
1941 purchased by Lloyd Brasilero, Rio de Janeiro and renamed Reconcavo
August 1954 broken up at Rio de Janeiro by Irmanos Almeida