Official Number: 124148
Laid down:
Builder: A Stephen & Sons Ltd., Linthouse, Glasgow
Launched: 18 October 1906
Pennant No: Y 3.1104
Into Service: 14 March 1916
Out of service: 1918
Fate: 1942 torpedoed 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:
18 October 1906 launched by A Stephen & Sons Ltd., Linthouse, Glasgow as Yard Nr: 420 named Janeta for Steamship Janeta Co Ltd., (Mcaclay & McIntyre, Managers) Glasgow
November 1906 completed
14 March 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 6 April 1916
20 January 1917 re-deployed as a collier and was then temporarily releaded on 16 February 1917
28 April 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 5 June 1917
1925 purchased by Glasgow United Shipping Co Ltd., – name unchanged
1929 purchased by Alkiviadis M Tatakis, Andros and renamed Dimitrios G Thermiotis
16 January 1940 sailed Gibraltar in escorted convoy HG15 to Avonmouth arriving 25 January 1940 with a cargo of rice and grain
6 February 1940 sailed Avonmouth independently to Cardiff
19 February 1940 sailed Cardiff independently to Lisbon arriving 27 February 1940
3 March 1940 sailed Lison independently
6 April 1940 sailed Cape Trujullo independently to Weymouth Bay arriving
1 May 1940 sailed Weymouth Bay independently to Southend arriving 3 May 1940
11 May 1940 sailed the Downs in unescorted convoy OA146 to dispersal on 15 May 1940 then independently to Cardiff
17 May 1940 sailed Cardiff independently to Milford Haven arriving the same day
18 January 1942 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-86 (Walter Schug) in the Atlantic 50 miles NE St John’s, Newfoundland in position 47.30N 52 20W while on passage from Demerara, British Guiana to London with 6,146 tons of general cargo and with the loss of all 33 of her crew. She was a straggler from Convoy SC63 and sunk stern first with 5 minutes