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Builder:                                  Baltimore Drydock & Shipbuilding Co 

Launched:                              1917 

Pennant No:                           Y 7.223

Into Service:                           July 1917

Out of service:                        17 August 1918

Fate:                                     17 August 1918 torpedoed and sunk

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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:

1917 launched by Baltimore Drydock & Shipbuilding Co Baltimore named Joseph Cudahy for Sinclair Gulf Corporation, New York

July 1917 completed for American-Italian Commercial Corporation, New York and acquired for Admiralty Service as an oiler, name unchanged

17 August 1918 torpedoed and sunk by U90 in position 46.25N  17.55W approx 370 miles NWbyW of Cape Finisterre while on passage from Bordeaux to New York in ballast with the loss of one life