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Official Number: 128509
Pennant Nr: Y3.458
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Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Willington Quay, Newcastle
Launched: 23 March 1910
Into Service: 1914
Out of service: 16 December 1915
Fate: 1 August 1917 captured and sunk
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:
23 March 1910 launched Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co Ltd., Willington Quay, Newcastle as Yard Nr: 174 named Llandudno for Llandudno Shipping Co Ltd., (E T Radcliffe & Co, Managers) Cardiff
28 March 1910 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …
May 1910 completed
12 January 1911 sailed the River Tyne for Port Said
27 January 1911 at Port Said
28 February 1911 sailed Europatoria for Dedeaagatch
15 July 1911 sailed Rotterdam for Newport, Gwent
3 October 1911 passed Constantinople for Hamburg
18 July 1912 sailed from Civita Vecchia
25 July 1912 passed Kertch
24 November 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 9 July 1915
30 April 1915 between James Island and Sechura Bay in company with HMS ORAMA then anchored in Sechura Bay
2 May 1915 sailed Sechura Bay in company with HMS KENT
HMS KENT
6 May 1915 arrived at Chatham Bay, Cocos island with HMS KENT
27 May 1915 sailed Port St Nicholas
28 May 1915 sailed from Independence Bay
14 June 1915 at Port St Nicholas berthed alongside HMS NEWCASTLE and supplied 640 tons of bunker coal
HMS NEWCASTLE
27 June 1915 at Sechura Bay alongside HMS ORAMA and supplied 212 tons of bunker coal
5 July 1915 at Sechura Bay berthed alongside HMS NEWCASTLE and supplied 350 tons of bunker coal
10 July 1915 re-deployed as a Collier Timber Transport until 25 January 1916
26 January 1916 re-deployed as a Collier until 29 February 1916
1 March 1916 re-deployed as a Sugar transport from Cuba until 27 May 1916
28 May 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 7 July 1916
21 October 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 17 December 1916
18 December 1916 re-deployed as a Wheat transport from the United States until 28 March 1917
7 March 1917 while on passage from New York to Kirkwall was stopped and boarded by HMS EBRO – checked and allowed to proceed
29 March 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 12 May 1917
13 May 1917 re-deployed as a Wheat transport from Karachi until 13 July 1917
18 May 1917 HMS PERTH on the Perim patrol sighted ship sailing east
21 May 1917 HMS TOPAZE on the Sokotra Patrol stopped, boarded, checked and allowed her to proceed
14 July 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport until ….
1 August 1917 captured by German submarine U-33 in the Mediterranean 110 miles s x W Ile de Poquerolles and sunk by explosives in position 41°11N 06°12E while on passage from Marseilles to Salonica carrying stores with the loss of 1 life