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Official Number:                       101993 

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Builder:                                   Sir Raylton Dixon & Co Ltd., Middlesborough

Pennant No:                            Y 3.122

Launched:                               6 March 1893

Into Service:                            26 July 1916

Out of service:                         20 April 1917

Fate:                                      20 April 1917 captured and sunk

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Background Data:  One of a group of additional ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augument the RFA

Career Data:

6 March 1893 launched by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co Ltd., Middlesborough as Yard Nr: 382 named Phoenix for Phoenix Steamship Co Ltd., (Hoyland & Co. Managers) London

April 1893 completed

1899 purchased by Cairn Line of Steamships Ltd., (Cairns, Yong & Noble, Managers), Newcastle and renamed Cairndon

1916 purchased by Lowlands Steam Shipping Co Ltd., (J Crass & Co., Managers), Newcastle and renamed Lowdale

26 July 1916 Requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name not changed – deployed to Northern Russia until 2 September 1916

3 September 1916 re-deployed as a Expeditionary Force Transport until 21 October 1916 with a cargo of timber

22 October 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 18 November 1916

19 November 1916 off hire voyage until 16 December 1916

17 December 1916 re-deployed as a collier until …

20 April 1917 captured by German submarine U-35 and sunk by gunfire in the Atlantic 90 miles W x N from Gibraltar while on passage from the River Tyne to Tunis with a cargo of coal