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Official Number: 102725
Builder: Wm Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool
Pennant No: Y 3.58
Launched: 26 February 1895
Into Service: 6 August 1914
Out of service: 12 May 1918
Fate: 12 May 1918 torpedoed and 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:
16 February 1895 launched by Wm Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool as Yard Nr: 490 named Haslingden for Murrell & Yeoman (F Yeoman & Son, Manager) Cardiff
March 1895 completed
2 May 1901 arrived at Savannah from Huelva
26 April 1905 arrived at Savannah from Villa Real
23 February 1906 sailed Cardiff for Bermuda
12 May 1906 sailed Newport News for Boucan
24 July 1912 arrived Sand Key from Bermuda
6 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 13 September 1914
19 August 1914 at Scapa Flow alongside the Edgar Class old 1st Class Cruiser HMS ENDYMION supplying her with 410 tons of bunker coal
HMS ENDYMION
7 December 1914 arrived Baltimore from Pomaron
9 February 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 11 January 1918
31 March 1916 arrived at Methil from Carthagena
9 May 1916 until 31 May 1916 off pay voyage
19 June 1916 until 4 July 1916 off pay voyage
15 July 1916 until 5 August 1916 off pay voyage
15 March 1917 sailed from St Helens Bay to Caen Roads in convoy with eight other colliers and escorted by the armed trawlers HMS’s SAPPER and ROSE on the port side of the convoy and the armed trawlers HMS’s SEA SEARCHER and GOZO on the starboard side
12 January 1918 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport for one trip carrying ammunition empties between Le Havre and Blyth
30 January 1918 re-deployed as a collier until …
12 May 1918 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-21 (Bruno Mahn) in the North Sea seven miles east of Seaham Harbour when on passage from Rouen to the Tyne in ballast with the loss of eleven lives