Official Number: 102191
Builder: Workman, Clark & Co Ltd., Belfast
Pennant No: Y 4.20 / Y8.103
Launched: 27 November 1894
Into Service: 12 May 1915
Out of service: December 1918
Fate: 20 July 1923 broken up
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:
27 November 1894 launched by Workman, Clark & Co Ltd., Belfast as Yard Nr: 116 named Hector for Ocean Steamship Co Ltd., (A Holt & Co Ltd., Managers) Liverpool
February 1895 completed
23 December 1900 sailed Glasgow
4 January 1901 sailed Greenock to Rouen
8 December 1904 at 6.35N 107.38E passenger Yung Ha Chung discharged dead – natural causes
19 October 1911 at Batavia Hospital Able Seaman Arthur Brierley discharged dead – Malaria
12 May 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Fleet Messenger and later served as Kite Balloon Ship renamed as HMS HECTOR at the Dardanelles
26 June 1915 at Port Mudros sailed for a test flight of her balloon
9 July 1915 arrived at Kephalo
13 July 1915 off Cape Hellas balloon aloft spotting for HMS CHATHAM who fired 6″ shells at Krithia Village and Achi Baba at shore batteries
15 July 1915 off Gabas Tepe with HMS CHATHAM firing 6″ Lyddite shells at gun battery
17 July 1915 anchored at Kephalo Bay
19 July 1915 sailed Kephalo Bay returning to anchor the same day
29 July 1915 arrived at Kephalo Bay
5 August 1915 arrived at Kephalo Bay
6 August 1915 sailed from Kephalo Bay returning the same day
12 August 1915 sailed from Kephalo Bay
13 August 1915 sailed from Kephalo Bay returning the same day
14 August 1915 arrived at Kephalo Bay
17 August 1915 arrived at Kephalo Bay
19 August 1915 arrived at Kephalo Bay
26 August 1915 Assistant Steward Carlo Ferrugia MMR discharged dead – illness
28 August 1915 sailed at Kephalo Bay
6 September 1915 sailed from Kephalo Bay returning the same day
7 September 1915 sailed from Kephalo Bay
14 September 1915 arrived at Kephalo Bay
17 September 1915 sailed from Kephalo Bay
3 October 1915 with HMS JED off Kephalo
17 October 1915 sailed from Kephalo Bay
15 March 1916 sailed Port Ino
16 March 1916 arrived Port Mudros
1 April 1916 sailed Port Mudros
25 May 1916 decommissioned and served under the Red Ensign as a collier, troop transport and stores carrier named Hector
23 June 1916 sighted by HMS MANTURA – allowed to proceed
13 March 1917 sighted by HMS CLIO while on passage to Aden
6 August 1918 at 49.33N 05.03W Greaser & Trimmer James Burns discharged dead – natural causes
December 1918 returned to her owners name unchanged
20 July 1923 arrived Wilhelmshaven, Germany for demolition by Schiffswerke Unterelbe
Notes:
1. On of a group of 6 sister ships between 1894 and 1895
2. Was awarded the Dardanelles 1915/1916 Campaign Honour