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.