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Official Number:                  127929

Laid down:                          

Builder:                              Sir Raylton Dixon & Co Ltd., Middlesborough

Pennant No:                       

Launched:                          30 July 1908

Into Service:                       1916

Out of service:                    2 December 1918

Fate:                                 2 December 1918 CTL

Background Data:

One of a group of additional ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA

Career Data:

30 July 1908 launched by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co Ltd., Middlesborough as Yard Nr: 538 named KONAKRY for British & African Steam Navigation Co Ltd., (Elder, Dempster & Co., Managers) Liverpool. The Lady Sponsor was Mrs Roxburgh

23 September 1908 ran trials and was handed over. Accommodation for 12 passengers

4 June 1909 arrived at Teneriffe, Canary Islands from Barry 

17 August 1909 sailed Freetown, Sierra Leone

19 May 1911 at sea Assistant Cook John Burt discharged dead from consumption

4 July 1911 at Forcados, West Coast of Africa Deck Boy P J J Morris discharged dead – drowned

9 July 1911 at 5.36N 00.06E Assistant Steward A Ericson discharged dead – malaria fever

12 February 1912 at Forcados, West Coast of Africa Kroo Labourer Black Mans Trouble discharged dead – injuries sustained having fallen down the ships hold

28 March 1912 at Norfolk, Virginia Fireman & Trimmer J Camilleri discharged dead from heart disease

3 July 1913 at 06.05S 11.41E Kroo Boy Wessar discharged dead – cause unknown

10 August 1913 00.30S 8.43E Kroo Boy Fine discharged dead – cause unknown

21 August 1913 at Libreville Labourer Farien discharged dead from beri-beri

1 June 1914 at sea Ship’s Cook Henry Ridley discharged dead – malaria

26 September 1915 at Burutu Able Seaman John Reddy discharged dead – drowned

1916 selected for conversion into an Oiler by the insertion of cylindrical tanks into her holds and was requisitioned for Admiralty service as such – name unchanged

26 March 1917 at sea Fireman J W Saunders discharged dead – accidental concussion of the brain

1 December 1918 while on passage from Queenstown to Trinidad in ballast, was in collision with the Pacific Steam Navigation Co’s liner ORDUNA which was on charter to Cunard Line at the time, 16 miles off Gallery Head, Co Cork with the loss of 7 lives

2 December 1918 she drifted ashore at Garrettstown nearby and was declared as a constructive total loss