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Official Number:                      132057 

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Builder:                                     Wm. Pickersgill & Co, Southwick Yard, Sunderland

Pennant No:                             Y 3.69

Launched:                                30 January 1911

Into Service:                             21 August 1914

Out of service:                          8 March1918

Fate:                                           Torpedoed & Sunk 8 March 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:

30 January 1911 launched by Wm. Pickersgill & Co, Southwick Yard, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 170 named Intent for James Westoll, Manager) Sunderland

February 1911 completed

21 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 23 November 1917

20 February 1915 at Scapa Flow alongside HMS GLOUCESTER supply 615 tons of bunker coal

HMS GLOUCESTER

24 November 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport for one journey from Le Harve to Newport with a cargo of ammunition empties until 12 December 1917

13 December 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 8 March 1918

8 March 1918 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UC-40 in the North Sea 4 miles east of Seaham Harbour in ballast with the loss of one life