Official Number:                    114713

Builder:                                S P Austin & Son, Wear Dock, Sunderland

Pennant No:                  Y.3 77

Launched:                            18 June 1901

Into Service:                          5 August 1914

Out of service:                       27 December 1915

Fate:                                    27 December 1915 mined and 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:

18 June 1901 launched by S P Austin & Son, Wear Dock, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 215 named Hadley for Wm Cory & Son Ltd., London

22 June 1901 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …

July 1901 completed

6 October 1902 sailed from Gravesend for Barry, South Wales

18 December 1902 sailed from Methil

30 December 1903 sailed from Barry, South Wales for London

16 January 1904 arrived off Barry Island, South Wales for Barry

26 March 1909 arrived at Leith from London in ballast

3 October 1909 arrived at Leith from London in ballast

21 April 1910 arrived at Grangemouth from London in ballast

13 October 1911 sailed from Burntisland for London with a cargo of coal

13 January 1912 arrived at Grangemouth from London in ballast

15 March 1912 arrived at Burntisland from Londin in ballast sailing the same day to London with a cargo of coal

14 March 1914 sailed Grangemouth for Rouen, France with a cargo of coal

5 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged until 10 October 1914

9 September 1915 re-deployed as a Collier Timber transport and an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying timber for the Office of Works until 22 October 1915

27 December 1915 struck a mine laid 6 days earlier by German submarine UC-3 (Erwin WaBner) and sank in the North Sea 3 miles SE ½ E from Shipwash Light Vessel off Harwich. There were no casualties