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Official Number:                       128947

Pennant Nr:                     Y 3.61 

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Builder:                                   Antwerp Engineering Co, Hoboken

Launched:                               15 October 1915

Into Service:                            10 August 1914

Out of service:                         26 April 1918

Fate:                                      26 April 1918 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:

15 October 1913 launched by Antwerp Engineering Co, Hoboken as Yard Nr 66 named Llwyngwair for Harries Bros & Co (Owen L Harries, Manager) Cardiff

November 1913 completed

10 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Collier – name unchanged – until 30 June 1917

1 July 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force transport for one trip with a cargo of ammunition empties until 8 July 1917

9 July 1917 re-deployed as a Collier until 15 October 1917

16 October 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force transport for one trip carrying ammunition empties from Le Harve to Immingham until 20 October 1917

27 October 1917 re-deployed as a Collier until 7 January 1918

8 January 1918 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport for one trip carrying rags between Calais and Goole until 16 January 1918

17 January 1918 re-deployed as a Collier until 26 April 1918

26 April 1918 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UC-64 in the North Sea 5 miles SSE from Seaham Harbour while on passage from Dunkirk to the River Tyne in ballast with the loss of eight lives. Their loss is commemorated with pride on the Tower Hill Memorial –

© Brian Watson acknowledged

Leading Seaman Robert Coull is also remembered with pride on panel 31 of the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and Leading Seaman John Macleay is also remembered with pride on panel 30 of the Chatham Naval Memorial.