Official Number:                    135238  

Laid down:

Builder:                                   Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd

Pennant No:             Y.7.22

Launched:                              20 May 1913

Into Service:                            8 August 1914

Out of service:                        1919

Fate:                                         Ran aground and scrapped 

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:

20 May 1913 launched by Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd., Grangemouth as Yard Nr: 353 named Impoco for Imperial Oil Co Ltd (Charles O Stillman, Manager) Sarnia, Ontario

21 May 1913 the Scotsman newspaper reported …

19 June 1913 sailed Dundee

8 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an oiler – name unchanged

8 September 1914 at St Vincent with HMS CANOPUS sailing the same day

9 September 1914 taken in tow by HMS CANOPUS

17 September 1914 entered Pernambuco to load coal bunkers

22 September 1914 arrived at Abrolhos Rocks with HMS CORNWALL

HMS CORNWALL

25 September 1914 sailed Abrolhos Rocks with HMS CANOPUS

1 October 1914 at Abrolhos Rocks alongside HMS BRISTOL to refuel her

HMS BRISTOL

14 October 1914 at Abrolhos Rocks alongside HMS BRISTOL to refuel her

19 October 1914 at Abrolhos Rocks alongside HMS CORNWALL to refuel her

22 October 1914  at Abrolhos Rocks alongside HMS BRISTOL to refuel her – she received 66 tons of FFO

2 November 1914 received provisions from HMS CARNARVON

28 November 1914 sailed Abrolhos Rocks in the company of HMS ORAMA

12 December 1914 at Port William alongside HMS INFLEXIBLE refuelling her

HMS INFLEXIBLE

13 December 1914 HMS GLASGOW alongside – she received 36 tons of FFO

23 February 1915 arrived at Abrolhos Rocks

6 March 1915 at Abrolhos Rocks alongside HMAS SYDNEY

8 March 1915 at Abrolhos Rocks alongside the collier Buresk to receive bunker coal

14 March 1915 at Abrolhos Rocks alongside HMAS SYDNEY

17 March 1915 at Abrolhos Rocks supplied HMS MACEDONIA 12 gallons of fuel oil

19 March 1915 at Abrolhos Rocks alongside HMS CELTIC

22 March 1915 at Abrolhos Rocks exercised abandon ship

24 March 1915 sailed Abrolhos Rocks towing a target which was fired at by HMS VINDICTIVE returning to anchor at Abrolhos Rocks

25 March 1915 sailed Abrolhos Rocks towing a target which was fired at by HMS VINDICTIVE

25 April 1915 at Abrolhos Rocks alongside HMS GLASGOW

9 May 1915 sighted by HMS CELTIC at Abrolhos Rocks

13 January 1919 the Scotsman newspaper reported …

5 February 1919 at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands alongside HMS BRISTOL to refuel her – she received 39.5 tons of FFO. Later sailed Port Stanley in company with HMS BRISTOL and ss Cairn Ross

10 February 1919 on passage from Port Stanley to Monte Video with HMS BRISTOL and ss Cairn Ross

12 February 1919 sailed from Monte Video to Port Stanley with HMS BRISTOL

4 April 1921 sailed Halifax

5 April 1921 ran aground on Blonde Rock at the entrance to the Bay of Fundy while on passage from Darmouth N.S. to St. John N.B. carrying a cargo of gasoline

4 May 1921 was refloated and deliberately beached at Clark’s Harbour

21 May 1921 was again refloated and was towed to Halifax for inspection where she was declared a CTL and was subsequently scrapped