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Official Number: 124333
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Builder: Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co Ltd., Cowpen Quay, Blyth
Pennant No: Y 3.82
Launched: 28 February 1907
Into Service: 7 August 1914
Out of service: WW1
Fate: 1968 broken up
Items of historic interest involving this ship: –
Background Data: One of a group of additional ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the RFA
Career Data:
28 February 1907 launched by Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co Ltd., Cowpen Quay, Blyth as Yard Nr: 135 named Ludworth for Furness, Withy & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool
1 March 1907 the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail newspaper reported …
April 1907 completed
25 December 1907 sailed Goole
28 December 1907 anchored off Southend
30 December 1907 arrived Blyth
10 January 1908 sailed Blyth
17 August 1914 requsitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged
5 October 1914 off Plymouth sailing east bound passed HMS CAESAR
HMS CAESAR
19 September 1917 at Dover Harbour berthed alongside HMS ATTENTIVE and supplied bunker coal until the warship had full stowage
8 April 1918 at Dover berthed alongside HMS ATTENTIVE and supplied bunker coal until the warship hadd full stowage
1918/1919 returned to owners
7 January 1919 the ships Master – Captain Frank Thompson – appointed a member of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) published in the London Gazette of this day
1923 purchased by W H Van Der Zee, Smyman and renamed Helena
1932 purchased by Zisan Hanum Maclam Kir Zade Mustafa & Others, Istanbul and renamed Atilla
1934 owners now Haci Selimzade Hamdi ve Serikleri, Istanbul – name unchanged
1938 owners now Hamdi Selimoglu ve Serikleri, Istanbul – name unchanged
1952 owners now Mehmet Kazanci ve Serikleri, Istanbul – name unchanged
1956 owners now Sosyete Silep TAS, Istabbul – name unchanged
1957 purchased by Ahmet & Mehmet Kosar Vapurculuk KS, Istanbul and renamed Kosar
25 October 1968 arrived Ferner for demolition by S Kalkavan