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Official Number:                       110356

Builder:                                   Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry dock Co., Cowpen Quay, Blyth

Pennant No:                    Y 3.531 / B 2608

Launched:                              13 July 1900

Into Service:                           1 February 1915

Out of service:                        15 October 1917

Fate:                                      Mined and sank 15 October 1917

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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 July 1900 launched by Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Cowpen Quay, Blyth as Yard Nr: 102 named Hartburn for Tyne & Blyth Steamship Owning Co Ltd., Newcastle

1915 purchased by Richards, Turpin & Co Ltd., Swansea – name unchanged

1 February 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 27 February 1915

21 September 1915 arrived at Methil from Dunkirk in ballast

30 December 1915 arrived at Leith from Dunkirk in ballast

1916 purchased by Capel & Co (Newcastle & Hull) Ltd., Newcastle – name unchanged

23 June 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 20 September 1917

21 September 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying cross-Channel hay until …

15 October 1917 struck a mine laid by the German submarine UC-62 (Max Schmitz) in the English CHannel and sank ten miles south of Anvil Point in position 50.34.74N 02.06.42W while on passage from Manchester to St. Helen’s Roads carrying 880 tons of hay and 70 tons of railway trucks with the loss of three lives