Official Number: 118812
Laid down:
Builder: Irvine’s Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co., West Hartlepool
Launched: 1904
Pennant No: Y 3.797
Signal Letters: VQFJ
Into Service: 1915
Out of service: 1918
Fate: Grounded & Sunk 1951
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:
1904 launched by Irvine’s Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co., Harbour Dock, West Hartlepool as Yard Nr: 136 named MAJESTIC for W.H. Cockerline & Co, Hull
8 April 1904 register opened at Hull as Nr: 22/1904 in the Register Book
April 1904 completed
12 April 1904 the Shields Daily Gazette reported …
10 July 1915 requisitioned for service as a Collier until 2 October 1915
3 October 1915 served as a Collier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government a/c until 5 November 1915
6 November 1915 served as a Transport carrying timber for the Office of Works until 22 March 1916
23 March 1916 with the Commercial Branch as a Transport carrying ore until 5 May 1916
6 May 1916 served as a Collier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government a/c until 6 September 1917
7 September 1917 served as a Collier until 14 October 1918
1938 sold to C. Sigalas Sons, Piraeus and renamed TASSIA
11 April 1939 berthed at Dundee from Alexandria
June 1942 acquired by the U.S. War Shipping Administration, Panama and renamed COCKEREL
13 October 1942 sailed New York in unescorted convoy NK506 to Key West arriving 20 October 1942
17 November 1942 sailed Havana, Cuba in escorted convoy CK310 to Key West arriving the same day
18 September 1943 sailed New York in unescorted convoy NK566 to Key West
30 December 1943 sailed Key West in unescorted convoy KG679 to Guantanamo arriving 2 January 1944
May 1946 owners became Cadio Cia de Nav S.A (C. Sigalas Sons, Managers) Panama name unchanged
20 May 1951 developed a leak and was beached on Carallones Rocks, Vigo Bay where she later sank while on passage from Casablanca to Brunsbuttel carrying phosphate