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Official Number: 124210
Pennant Nr: Y 3.286
Laid down:
Builder: A. Rodger & Co, Port Glasgow
Launched: 25 July 1907
Into Service: 12 August 1914
Out of service: 27 January 1916
Fate: August 1944 scuttled
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:
25 July 1907 launched by A Rodger & Co., Port Glasgow as Yard Nr: 396 named Lamington for Lanarkshire Steamship Co Ltd., (J Stevenson & Co., Managers) Glasgow
August 1907 completed
5 April 1908 arrived at Bunbury
3 July 1912 at 2º50N 29º42W No 1 Fireman Chong Chee discharged dead from opium poisoning
12 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service initially as a Expeditionary Force Transport – name unchanged – until 21 August 1914
2 September 1914 re-deployed as a collier – name unchanged – until 21 December 1915
22 February 1915 at Mudros Bay berthed alongside the Light Cruiser HMS SAPPHIRE supplied bunker coal
25 February 1915 at Tenedos berthed alongside the Light Cruiser HMS SAPPHIRE supplied 226 tons of bunker coal
26 February 1915 at Tenedos berthed alongside the Battlecruiser HMS INFLEXIBLE supplied 986 tons of bunker coal
28 February 1915 at Tenedos berthed alongside the destroyer HMS JED supplied 16 tons of bunker coal
1 March 1915 at Tenedos berthed alongside the destroyer HMS JED supplied 44 tons of bunker coal
22 March 1915 at Rhenea Island berthed alongside the Light Cruiser HMS SAPPHIRE supplied 320 tons of bunker coal. Also berthed alongside the Destroyer HMS WELLAND supplied 68 tons of bunker coal
30 March 1915 at Tenedos a party from the Pre Dreadnought Battleship HMS ALBION drew stores
HMS ALBION
16 May 1915 at Mudros Bay alongside the Light Cruiser HMS DARTMOUTH supplying stores
22 December 1915 re-deployed as a Expeditionary Force Transport until 27 January 1916 – name unchanged
27 January 1916 returned to owners
1916 owners became National Steamship Co Ltd., (J & C Harrison, Managers) Glasgow – name unchanged
10 September 1916 sailed Buenos Ayres for St Vincent CV
30 September 1916 arrived at St Vincent CV
4 December 1918 at Aquilao, Spain Ordinary Seaman James Carney discharged dead from a fractured skull suffered when he fell down the hold
11 March 1923 at Hospital in Constantinople Able Seaman Fred Woods discharged dead from natural causes. He had been admitted to hospital on 6 March 1923
24 August 1926 at 55º4N 10º20W Sailor George Leonmakis discharged dead from drowning – apparent suicide
1931 purchased by T N Epiphaniades, Syros and renamed Konistra
29 April 1941 bombed by German aircraft at Suda Bay and was beached. Later salvaged by German Forces
1942 owners now Mittelmeer Reederei GmbH, Deutsche Reich – name unchanged
August 1944 scuttled at Marseilles by retreating German forces
12 July 1946 was raised and taken for breaking up at Fos