Official Number:                     132874

Laid down:                              

Builder:                                  Wm. Pickersgill & Co, Southwick Yard, Sunderland

Launched:                              31 August 1912

Pennant No:                           Y 3.113

Signal Letters:                        HWTG

Into Service:                            2 August 1914

Out of service:                         13 August 1917

Fate:                                      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:

31 August 1912  launched by Wm. Pickersgill & Co, Southwick Yard, Sunderland as Yard Nr 177 named MASTON for Thomas & Appleton Shipping Co Ltd (Thomas & Appleton, Managers) Cardiff

2 October 1912  Register opened at Cardiff as Nr: 20/1912 in the Register Book

October 1912  completed

23 July 1914 arrived at Penarth

2 August 1914  requisitioned for service as a Collier until 9 August 1914

17 August 1914  served as a collier until 9 November 1914

25 September 1914 off Monte Video in communication with HMS BRISTOL

2 October 1914 arrived at Punta Arenas and anchored

9 October 1914 in company with HMS OTRANTO

11 October 1914 at Vallenar Roads alongside HMS GLASGOW and supplied her with  600 tons of bunker coal

12 October 1914 to 14 October 1914 at Port Lagunas alongside HMS OTRANTO supplying a total of 1,500 tons of bunker coal

19 October 1914 sailed from Port Lagunas

20 October 1914 at Vallenar Roads alongside HMS GLASGOW and supplied her with  605 tons of bunker coal

26 October 1914 at Vallenar Roads alongside HMS GLASGOW and supplied her with  170 tons of bunker coal

27 October 1914 at Vallenar Roads alongside HMS OTRANTO supplying bunker coal together with the collier North Wales

17 June 1915  served as a Collier to Northern Russia for Russian Government a/c until 3 August 1915

31 August 1915 stopped by HMS TENBY CASTLE when on passage from Archangel to Le Havre

22 September 1915 served as a collier until 22 December 1915

23 December 1915  served as a transport carrying sugar until 8 April 1916

9 February 1916 passed HMS LACONIA 

1 July 1916  served as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying hay and oats and was then  temporarily released on 16 September 1916

13 December 1916  served as a collier until 31 March 1917

29 January 1917 at Kingston, Jamaica alongside HMS ROXBURGH supplying 144 tons of bunker coal

1 April 1917  served as a Transport carrying sugar from Trinidad or Cuba until 25 June 1917

26 June 1917  served as a collier until …

13 August 1917  torpedoed and sunk by the Austro-Hungarian U-28 (LSL Zdenko Hudecek) in  the Mediterranean 35 miles ENE of Cape Spartivento, Italy in position 38°25 N 16°43 E on passage from Cardiff and Malta to Taranto carrying coal and stores with the loss of two lives.