Requisitioned Auxiliary – Luciston (1)

Luciston 1 

 

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 1906

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