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Official Number:                        131832 

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Builder:                                    Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Willington Quay, Newcastle

Pennant No:                             Y 3.288

Launched:                                6 August 1910

Into Service:                            4 August 1914

Out of service:                          8 May 1918

Fate:                                       Torpedoed & Sunk 8 May 1918

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Background Data:  One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA

Career Data:

6 August 1910 launched by Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co Ltd., Willington Quay, Newcastle as Yard Nr: 176 named Ingleside for Rowland & Marwood’s Steamship Co Ltd., (Headlam & Rowland, Managers) Whitby

September 1910 completed

3 September 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 17 May 1916

19 November 1914 at Buoy 14 at Sheerness with HMS TOPAZE berthed alongside supplying 48 tons of bunker coal

22 February 1915 north of Tenedos while HMS INFLEXIBLE was at anchor berthed alongside and supplied 486 tons of bunker coal

2 March 1915 at Port Mudros berthed alongside HMS VENGEANCE and supplied 423 tons of bunker coal

3 March 1915 off Tenedos while HMS DARTMOUTH was at anchor berthed alongside and supplied 430 tons of bunker coal

15 April 1915 at Tenedos supplied stores to HMS SAPPHIRE

HMS SAPPHIRE

17 May 1915 at Port Mudros alongside HMS IMPLACABLE supplied 680 tons if bunker coal

18 May 1916 re-deployed as a sugar carrier – name unchanged – until 28 June 1916

22 May 1915 at Port Mudros received sacks of mail from HMS CARMANIA for conveyance back to the UK

20 November 1915 between Port Mudros and Milo while HMS BEN MY CHREE was at anchor berthed alongside and supplied 180 tons of bunker coal

29 June 1916 re-deployed as a collier – name unchanged – until 29 August 1916

30 August 1916 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport – name unchanged – until 1 October 1916

13 January 1917 re-deployed as a collier – name unchanged – until 7 March 1917

17 February 1917 while on the Sokotra Patrol sighted by HMS FOX

8 March 1917 re-deployed as a wheat carrier – name unchanged – until 23 May 1917 bringing wheat from Bombay

6 April 1917 off Perim boarded by HMS PERTH – allowed to proceed

24 May 1917 re-deployed as a collier – name unchanged – until 30 June 1917 for the Italian Government

1 July 1917 re-deployed as a sugar carrier – name unchanged – until 28 September 1917 bringing sugar from Cuba

20 September 1917 during an escorted convoy a torpedo passed close ahead of the ship

29 September 1917 re-deployed as a collier – name unchanged – until 20 December 1917

21 December 1917 re-deployed as a wheat carrier – name unchanged – until 27 February 1918 bringing maize from South Africa

28 February 1918 re-deployed as a collier – name unchanged – until 5 May 1918 when she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-38 in the Mediterranean 80 miles N x E Algiers in position 38.08N 03.02E while on passage from Le Goulette to Barrow with a cargo of iron-ore with the loss of 11 lives