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Official Number:                     115371

Builder:                                  J L Thompson & Son Ltd

Pennant No:                   Y 3.787

Launched:                              24 December 1901

Into Service:                           21 July 1915

Out of service:                        30 May 1917

Fate:                             30 May 1917 torpedoed & sunk

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 December 1901 launched by J L Thompson & Son Ltd as Yard Nr: 395 named Hanley for Walter Thomas Steamship Co Ltd., Cardiff

28 December 1901 Lloyds List newspaper reported …

May 1902 completed

5 September 1902 arrived at Harwich from Rosario

30 July 1909 arrived at Barry from London

1912 purchased by Lewis Steamship Co Ltd., (T Lewis & Co., Managers) Cardiff – name unchanged

16 January 1914 arrived at Colombo from Aden

21 July 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 20 October 1915

29 July 1915 arrived at London from Colombo

3 December 1915 arrived at Suez from Bombay

8 April 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 22 May 1916

23 May 1916 re-deployed as a transport carrying sugar until 24 June 1916

25 June 1916 re-deployed on French Government Service as a transport carrying steel between UK/France until 22 January 1917

23 January 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 18 March 1917

19 March 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying British oats from the River Plate area until …

30 May 1917 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-87 (Rudolf Schneider) in the Atlantic 95 miles west of Bishops Rock in position 49°23N 08°43W while on passage from Bahia Blanca to Falmouth with a cargo of oats with the loss of one life