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Official Number: 128827
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co., Willington Quay
Pennant No: G 2801 / Y.3 845
Launched: 21 February 1913
Into Service: 28 August 1915
Out of service: 1918
Fate: 11 November 1938 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:
21 February 1913 launched by Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co., Willington Quay as Yard Nr: 186 named Hannah for Rahtkens Shipping Co Ltd Ltd., (Franz Rahtkens & Co., Managers) Middlesborough
22 February 1913 the Shields Daily News newspaper reported …
April 1913 completed
12 January 1914 arrived at Troon from Ballantrae
29 May 1914 arrived at Monte Video from Hamburg
8 October 1914 arrived at Brixham from Rosario
24 January 1915 arrived at Falmouth from New York when on passage to Rotterdam
8 August 1915 arrived at Las Palmas from Buenos Ayres when on passage to Leith
28 August 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Collier – name unchanged – until 9 October 1915
21 December 1915 re-deployed as a Collier until 29 July 1916
14 May 1916 & 15 May 1916 at Mudros berthed alongside HMS EXMOUTH and supplied her with 460 tons of bunker coal
HMS EXMOUTH
23 May 1916 at Kephalo berthed alongside HMS GRAFTON and supplied her with 342 tons of bunker coal
30 July 1916 re-deployed as a Collier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government a/c until 27 August 1916
28 August 1916 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying rails between the USA and France until 21 December 1917
22 December 1917 re-deployed as a Collier until 1918
1933 purchased by N V Stoomschip “Hannah” (F W Uitenbogaart, Manager) Colon – name unchanged
1935 registered in Rotterdam – name unchanged
11 November 1938 torpedoed and sunk by the Spanish Nationalist submarine General Mola six miles off Cape San Antonio while on passage from Antwerp to Barcelone with a cargo of grain during the Spanish Civil War