Official Number: 129106
Pennant No: Y 3.143
Laid down:
Builder: Osbourne, Graham & Co, North Hylton, Sunderland
Launched: 24 May 1910
Into Service: 1914
Out of service: 1 May 1917
Fate: 1 May 1917 captured and sunk
Items of historic interest involving this ship: –
Background Data: One of a group of additional requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA
Career Data:
24 May 1910 launched by Osbourne, Graham & Co, North Hylton, Sunderland as Yard No: 151 named Ladywood for Wm. France, Fenwick & Co Ltd (Herbert C Pelley, Manager) Sunderland
26 May 1910 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …
June 1910 completed
16 October 1910 berthed at Sunderland from London
27 July 1911 the Yorkshire Post reported …
14 May 1912 berthed at Hull from Rotterdam in ballast
12 June 1912 berthed at Sunderland from Hamburg
12 April 1913 berthed at Sunderland from Rotterdam
21 June 1913 berthed at Sunderland from Rouen
2 September 1913 at Archangel
13 November 1913 sailed Sunderland for London
15 December 1913 at Penarth
29 March 1914 berthed at Sunderland from Hamburg
1 April 1914 sailed Sunderland for London
13 May 1914 berthed at Cardiff in Roath Dock
14 June 1914 sailed Sunderland for Hamburg
12 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Collier – name unchanged
20 February 1915 at Scapa Flow alongside the light cruiser HMS YARMOUTH supplying 610 tons of bunker coal
HMS YARMOUTH
4 October 1915 at Scapa Flow alongside the cruiser HMS WARRIOR supplying 210 tons of bunker coal
31 January 1916 at Scapa Flow alongside the cruiser HMS WARRIOR supplying 240 tons of bunker coal
20 July 1916 at Cromarty alongside the cruiser HMS DONEGAL supplying bunker coal. The coaling had to be stopped after 3 hours and 10 minutes when reports were received that German Zepplines were in the area
HMS DONEGAL
2 January 1917 returned to owners
1 May 1917 captured by German submarine UB-38 and sunk with explosives in the Atlantic 15 miles SW of Wolf Rock in position 49°.52N 05°.59W while on passage from Port Nolloth, South Africa to Swansea carrying copper ore