Official Number: 118618
Laid down:
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co, Low Walker-on-Tyne
Pennant No: Y 3.2178
Launched: 27 July 1903
Into Service: 11 December 1917
Out of service: 11 March 1919
Fate: 30 August 1942 torpedoed and sunk
Items of historic interest involving this ship: –
Background Data: One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA
Career Data:
27 July 1903 launched by Armstrong, Whitword & Co., Low Walker-on-Tyne as Yard No: 745 named Neebing for G T Marks, Toronto
August 1903 completed
1906 sold to Canadian North West Steamship Co Ltd., Toronto – name unchanged
1915 sold to Swift Steamship Co Ltd., (Hessler & Co., Managers) West Hartlepool – name unchanged
6 April 1917 sailed in a convoy of colliers from St Helens towards Caen Roads protected by HMS’s SAPPER, ROSE, PUFFIN and GOZO
11 December 1917 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Transport with the Commericlal Branch on a Norwegian service until 15 April 1918
16 April 1918 served as a collier until 11 March 1919
1919 sold to Silverdale Steamship Co Ltd., (Stephen Jones, Manager, Cardiff – name unchanged
1923 sold to Arcos Steamship Co Ltd., London who were acting for the Soviet Government – name unchanged
1925 sold to Sovtgorflot, Odessa and renamed TOMP
1932 renamed JAN TOMP by her owners
30 August 1942 torpedoed and sunk by German Schnellboot S-28 (Oblt. Karl-Frederich Künzel) off Sochi, Töniges off the Caucasian coast in position 43°44N 39°29E when on passage from Poti to Novorossiysk while in a convoy which was protected by MTB’s