Subsequent Names:       Cragside      Crag

Official No:                           118279

Builder:                              Wood Skinner, Bill Quay, Newcastle as Yard

Launched:                    22 April 1903

Into Service:                22 August 1914

Out of service:             1919

Fate:                          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:

May 1903  completed as a coaster

13 October 1908 sailed Goole for London with a cargo of coal

5 April 1909 sailed the River Tyne in ballast

16 July 1909 arrived at the River Tyne from Hull

22 October 1909 sailed Hartlepool with a cargo of grain

21 November 1909 arrived at Portsmouth from Hull

3 December 1909 sailed London in ballast

1 October 1910 sailed Hull with a cargo of grain

7 September 1911 berthed at the Prince of Wales Pier, Dover from La Panne, Belgium to discharge

1914 owners became C Rowbotham & Sons, London name unchanged

18 October 1932 while proceeding down the River Thames was in collision with the Royal Arsenal T Jetty, Woolwich. The ships stem was damage above the water line. There was extensive damage to stone and iron work of the Jetty

10 August 1935 involved in collision with the British ship Madura in the River Thames where the vessel was nearly cut in half amidships. The ship sank. It was partially visible at low water sitting upright. PLA divers examined the vessel with plan to unload the 500 tons of steel cargo before the vessel being raised and beached locally.

29 August 1935 raised and placed ashore off Harland & Wolffs Yard, North Woodwich

25 September 1935 under tow of the tug – Kings Cross took shelter off Spurn Head with a northerly gale blowing – reported in the Lloyds Casualty reports

1935 name abbreviated to CRAG by her owners

3q/55 reported broken up at Redheugh by J.J. King & Co.