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Official Number:                      135800

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Builder:                                  Osbourne, Graham & Co., North Hylton, Sunderland

Launched:                              1915

Pennant No:                           Y 3.1086

Into Service:                           4 March 1916

Out of service:                        16 September 1918

Fate:                                      Torpedoed and sunk 16 September 1918

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Background Data:  One of several ships requisitioned by the Admiralty for service during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA

Career Data:

1915 launched by Osbourne, Graham & Co., North Hylton, Sunderland as Yark No: 188 named Madryn for Mervyn Steam Shipping Co. Ltd., (Martyn, Martyn & Co. Ltd., Managers), Newport, Monmouthshire

January 1916 completed

24 January 1916 sailed Sunderland for Bordeaux

4 March 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged

9 June 1916 in dry dock at Barry, South Wales

10 June 1917 at Olna Firth Anchorage, Shetland Islands supplied the armoured cruiser HMS ACHILLES with bunker coal

HMS ACHILLES

16 September 1918 torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-82 (Heinrich Middendorff) five miles NNE Trevose Head, Cornwall in position 50.38N 05.00W when on passage from Penarth to Devonport with a cargo of coal