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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