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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

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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:

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