Official Number:                       119219

Pennant Nr:                     Y 3.609

Laid down:

Builder:                                   S.P. Austin & Son Ltd, Wear Dock, Sunderland

Launched:                               14 September 1905

Into Service:                            30 March 1915

Out of service:                         16 September 1918

Fate:                                       16 September 1918 torpedoed 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:

14 September 1905 launched by S.P. Austin & Son Ltd, Wear Dock, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 233 named Lord Stewart for Londonderry Steamers (Marquess of Londonderry), Seaham Harbour

October 1905 completed

30 March 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 13 April 1917

28 August 1915 alongside HMS TEUTONIC receiving Government Stores

HMS TEUTONIC

17 June 1916 at Loch Ewe alongside HMS OROTAVA supplying bunker coal

14 April 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport until 23 April 1917

24 April 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 28 July 1917

29 July 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport until 11 August 1917 with a cargo of Ammunition empties – for one trip only

12 August 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 23 October 1917

24 October 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport with a cargo of Ammunition Empties from France to Immigham until 2 November 1917

3 November 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 19 February 1918

20 February 1918 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport with a cargo of Ammunition Empties from Le Harve to Newport

About 1 March 1918 re-deployed as a collier until 17 April 1918

18 April 1918 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport with a cargo of Ammunition Empties from Le Harve to Newport for one trip

About 30 April 1918 re-deployed as a collier until 6 May 1918

7 May 1918 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport with a cargo of Empties from Le Harve to Newport

16 September 1918 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-104 in the English Channel 6 miles E½N from Hope’s Nose, Tor Bay in position 50.30N 03.19W while on passage from CHerbourg to Barry Roads in ballast with the loss of 1 life