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Official Number:                       93472

Pennant Nr:                     Y 3.64

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Builder:                                   Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow

Launched:                               16 March 1888

Into Service:                            5 January 1916

Out of service:                         WW1

Fate:                                      21 January 1922 ran aground and wrecked

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:

16 March 1888 launched by Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow as Yard Nr: 590 named Loch Lomond for Dundee Loch Line Steam Shipping Co Ltd., (A Leitch & Co., Managers) Dundee

May 1888 completed

1907 owners Andrew Leitch, Dundee – name unchanged

1910 owners Lomond Shipping Co Ltd., (W. Coupland, Manager), Newcastle – name unchanged

5 January 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged

1920 purchased by Franco-British Steamship Co Ltd (John W Thompson, Manager) London and renamed City of Smyrna

21 January 1922 ran aground was was wrecked at Blyth. Later broken up locally