SS LYONS – STANDING BY A GROUNDED SHIP ON CHESIL BEACH
Official Number: 79177
Laid down:
Builder: John Elder & Co, Govan
Launched: 10 January 1885
Into Service: 5 August 1914
Out of service: December 1915
Fate: 1974 reported broken up
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:
January 1885 completed
1887 transferred to Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de L’Ouest, Paris (LBSCRC, Mngrs) and renamed LYON
1911 conversion completed and renamed LYONS
24 November 1914 Engineer Charles S C Steen RNR appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
May 1915 became a Decoy Ship, name unchanged
3 July 1915 Stoker 1st Class Henry Thomas RN discharged dead. He is buried in Grimsby (Scartho Road) Cemetery in grave 41 D 25
Courtesy and © of The War Graves Photographic Project
November 1915 decoy Ship service ended
December 1915 returned to owners, name unchanged
1917 purchased by Henry M Grayson, Liverpool and renamed LA NINA
1917 owners became Ocean Salvage Co Ltd, London, name unchanged
1930 purchased by Philip C.C. Vail, Istanbul and renamed HORA
1930 owners became Turk Gemi Turtarma Anon Sirketi, Istanbul name unchanged
25 March 1932 asssited in the salving of the French passenger steamer PROVIDENCE which had run aground in a snow storm off CapeNiger near Imroz in the Aegean.
1935 owners became T.C. Munakalat Vekaleti Devlet Denizyollari Isletme Umum Mudurlugu, Istanbul, name unchanged
1938 owners became Deniz Vank Turk Gemi Kurtarma, Istanbul, name unchanged
1944 owners became Devlet Denizyollari ve Limanlari Turk gemi Kurtarma, Istanbul, name unchanged
1950 laid up at Istanbul.
1958 owners became DB Istanbul Limanlari Isletmesi, Istanbul and was hulked and became a floating office.
1974 reported broken up at Istanbul