Official Number:                     120560 

Laid down:

Builder:                                    Wm Denny & Bros., Dumbarton

Pennant No:              Y.4.10

Launched:                               19 April 1905

Into Service:                            1914

Out of service:                        1918

Fate:                                        4q 1932 reported as broken up at Dunkirk

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:

14 July 1904 ordered

19 April 1905 launched by Wm Denny & Bros., Dumbarton as Yard Nr: 752 named Invicta for South Eastern & Chatham Railway Co., London

9 June 1905 ran trials

3 July 1905 delivered at a cost of £68,764. Accommodated 132 x 1st Class and 77 x 2nd Class passengers

26 May 1906 carried the Prince and Princess of Wales to Boulogne whilst they were enroute to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (Ena)

1914 to 1918 requisitioned for Admiralty Service as a Fleet Messenger and also for trooping duties

17 April 1914 embarked 1/4th Battalion The East Yorkshire Regiment at Folkstone for Boulogne – 27 Officers and 942 other ranks

31 October 1914 rescued some of the survivors from HMS HERMES which had been torpedoed in the Dover Strait

11 May 1915 embarked 6th Battalion The KOSB at Folkstone for Le Harve

7 February 1917 embarked 7th Battalion The Queens Regiment at Folkstone for France

1 January 1923 owners became Southern Railway Co but she was not taken over but …

July 1923 transferred to S.A. de Gerance et d’Armement, Calais – name unchanged

4q 1932 reported broken up at Dunkirk