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Official Number: 128283
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Builder: R Stephenson & Co Ltd, Hebburn
Pennant No: Y 3.365
Launched: 1909
Into Service: 1914
Out of service: 30 December 1914
Fate: 1914 wrecked
Items of historic interest involving this ship: –
Background Data: One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty just after WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA
Career Data:
19 February 1909 launched by R Stephenson & Co Ltd., Hebburn as Yard Nr: 114 named Navarra for Donald & Taylor (Wm. G Taylor, Manager) Glasgow
May 1909 completed
29 August 1909 sailed the River Tyne for Gothenburg
22 October 1909 arrived on the River Tyne from Middlesborough
31 December 1909 sailed from Fredrikstad
11 JAnuary 1910 sailed from Nantes for Bilbao
13 July 1910 arrived at Bahia Blanca
15 November 1910 sailed Antwerp for Leith
28 June 1911 arrived at Blyth
1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier, name unchanged
14 November 1914 alongside HMS BERWICK at 10.17°N 79.52°W supplying bunker coal
HMS BERWICK
29 December 1914 sailed St. John, New Brunswick
30 December 1914 wrecked on Tusket Island, Nova Scotia while on passage from St John, New Brunswick to Le Havre carrying hay and oats
7 and 8 January 1915 a Board of Trade Inquiry held at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and the certificates of the Master, Chief Officer and Second Officer were suspended for varying periods