Official Number: 104228
Builder: Wm Dobson & Co, Low Walker
Pennant No: Y 8.43 / Y 3.598
Launched: 30 July 1900
Into Service: 6 February 1915
Out of service: 29 April 1919
Fate: 28 August 1933 arrived to be broken up
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:
30 July 1900 launched by Wm Dobson & Co. Low Walker as Yard Nr: 112 named Nidd for Goole Steam Shipping Co Ltd. Google
3 August 1900 the Jarrow Express newspaper reported …
August 1900 completed for her owners’ Goole to Antwerp route
1905 transferred to the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co., Goole – name unchanged
21 January 1912 sailed Goole for Antwerp
18 July 1912 berthed at Goole from Antwerp
19 December 1912 berthed at Goole from Antwerp
24 October 1913 berthed at Goole from antwerp
6 November 1913 berthed at Goole from Antwerp
7 December 1913 sailed Goole to Antwerp
8 March 1914 sailed Goole to Antwerp
September 1914 served as a Transport for cross-Channel work
6 February 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Stores Carrier – name unchanged
29 March 1915 became a collier – name unchanged
11 July 1915 in the Eastern Mediterranean, based at Mudros
August 1915 participated in the evacuation of Suvla Bay after the failure of the Gallipoli Campaign
1 January 1916 Pink List shows her to be under the Vice Admiral, Eastern Mediterranean asa Water Carrier
29 April 1919 refitted and returned to her owners’ commercial service – name unchanged
1 January 1922 owners became London & North Western Railway Co – name unchanged
1 January 1923 owners became London, Midland & Scottish Railway Co – named unchanged
1932 chartered to Great Western Railway Co for their Weymouth to Jersey cargo service
1933 laid up at Barrow
28 March 1933 arrived Mostyn for demolition by Darwyn & Mostyn Iron Co Ltd.