Official Number:                     95284

Laid down:

Builder:                                    Short Bros, Pallion Yard, Sunderland

Pennant No:                            Y6.5

Launched:                               28 April 1910

Into Service:                            3 August 1914

Out of service:                         1919

Fate:                                          Wrecked September 1929 

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:

2 January 1889 launched by Short Bros, Pallion Yard, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 181 named JOHN SANDERSON for Taylor & Sanderson Steam Shipping Co Ltd (Taylor & Sanderson, Managers), Sunderland

August 1889 completed

1899 owners restyled as Taylor & Sanderson Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Sunderland name  unchanged

25 August 1900 sailed Cape Town

30 September 1900 berthed at Galveston from Table Bay

17 November 1900 berthed at Rotterdam from Galveston

5 October 1901 passed Prawle Point when on passage from New York to Le Havre

11 December 1902 berthed at Halifax to load bunker coal

14 August 1912 arrived at Port Said while on passage to Barry, South Wales

3 August 1914 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as a Mine Carrier – name unchanged

7 August 1914 commissioned as HMS John Sanderson with Lieutenant J Dawes RNR in command and Engineer John W Palmer RNR appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

13 November 1917 at Port Mudros alongside HMS ARK ROYAL and embarked seaplanes N1094 and N1222 for Suda Bay

11 November 1918 based at Portsmouth vide Pink List of this date

1919 returned to her owners

1921 purchased by N.H. Nemazee, Hong Kong and renamed DASHTESTAN

26 October 1922 berthed at Singapore from Mauritius and sailed the following day for Hong Kong

28 December 1923 sailed from Bushire, Iran to Vladivostock summgling 400 cases of opium as cargo

1924 purchased by N.H. Caneiro, Macao and renamed COLOANE

May 1924 berthed at Bushire, Iran 

1925 purchased by Chan Yau Lee, Macao and renamed TAI TAK

3 May 1925 berthed at Bushire from Swatow, China

5 June 1925 sailed Bushire with 181 cases of smuggled opium as cargo

1927 purchased by Lee Ching SS Co, Macao and renamed HUNG ON

3 September 1929 was wrecked in the Hainan Strait, China which connects the Gulf of Tonkin to the South China Sea