Official Number: 129513
Laid down:
Builder: R Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow
Pennant No: Y 3.1094
Launched: 11 August 1910
Into Service: 9 March 1916
Out of service: 29 November 1916
Fate: 29 November 1916 torpedoed and sunk
Items of historic interest involving this ship: –
Background Data: One of several ships requisitioned by the Admiralty for service during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA
Career Data:
11 August 1910 launched by R Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow as Yard Nr: 317 named Luciston for Luciston Steamship Co Ltd., (W S Miller & Co., Managers) Glasgow
September 1910 completed
6 August 1912 arrived at St Vincent, Cape Verde Islands
13 August 1912 arrived at Las Palmas
9 March 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 16 August 1916
23 April 1916 & 24 April 1916 at Port Mudros alongside HMS EXMOUTH supplying 540 tons of bunker coal
HMS EXMOUTH
3 May 1916 until 13 June 1916 off hire voyage
17 August 1916 re-deployed to carry nitrates from Chile to the UK until 2 November 1916
3 November 1916 re-deployed as a collier until …
29 November 1916 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UC-22 in the Mediterranean 4 miles E from Dellamara Point, Malta while on passage from Cardiff to Gibraltar and Valetta, Malta with a cargo of coal
Notes:
Was one of eleven Company ships lost during World War 1