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Official No: 137846
Builder: Flensburger Schiffbau Ges, Flensburg
Launched: 8 December 1904
Pennant No: Y 3.16444 / Y 8.132
Into Service: 1916
Out of service: 1919
Fate: 1941 Bombed 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:
8 December 1904 launched by Flensburger Schiffbau Ges, Flensbur as Yard Nr: 244 named Regina
January 1905 completed
1906 owners became Bremer Dampferline “Atlas” mbH, Bremen and renamed Athena
1911 transfered to Deutsche Levante Linie, Hamburg – name unchanged
1914 laid up at Piraeus and later interned
1916 seized by the Allies and allocated to Britain under the auspices of the Shipping Controller
1917 renamed HUNTSCLYDE under the management of Clyde Shipping Co Ltd., Glasgow
18 June 1919 became a Stores Carrier – name unchanged
10 July 1918 2nd Steward Arthur Gurry discharged dead – he is buried in Les Baraques Military Cemetery, Sandgate in grave IV C 9
22 January 1919 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west bound
4 May 1919 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west bound
5 September 1919 returned to her Managers – name unchanged
27 March 1920 arrived at Penai Point in the Eastern Black Sea
1921 purchased by F G Reinhold, Danzig and renamed Ostsee
1922 owners became Seereederei GmbH, Danzig and renamed Marmara
1925 owners became Stettiner Dampfer Cie A G (Deutsche Levante Linie, Managers) Stettin – name unchanged
1931 owners now Norddeutscher Lloyd (Deutsche Levante Linie, Managers) Bremen and renamed Albania
1932 sold to USSR and renamed Morzhovets
1933 renamed Krasnogvardeets by USSR owners
31 December 1941 bombed and sunk off Feodosia – later raised but final fate unknown