Requisitioned Auxiliary – Nigel

 

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Official Number:                      128028

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Builder:                                  Grangemouth & Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd, Grangemouth

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Launched:                              11 April 1903

Into Service:                           26 February 1915

Out of service:                        22 April 1915

Fate:                                     12 November 1915 mined and sank

 

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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:

11 April 1903 launched by Grangemouth & Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd, Grangemouth as Yard Nr: 236 named Nigel for W S & J H Burger, Rotterdam

June 1903 completed as a passenger / cargo vessel

1907 purchased by George Gibson & Co Ltd., Leith – name unchanged

26 February 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service on Miscellaneous Duties – name unchanged

22 April 1915 returned to her owners – name unchanged

12 November 1915 struck a mine laid by German submarine UC-6 four days earlier and sank off Boulogne Harbour while on passage from Newhaven to Boulogne carrying Government Stores with the loss of five lives