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Official Number: 135631
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Builder: Bartram & Sons, South Dock, Sunderland
Pennant No: Y 3.304
Launched: 24 September 1907
Into Service: 18 September 1916
Out of service: 1918
Fate: Broken up at Nordfjord
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:
24 September 1907 launched by Bartram & Sons, South Dock, Sunderland as Yard No: 209 named Baltic Exchange for London Exchange Steamship Co Ltd., London
29 September 1907 arrived at Middlesborough from Sunderland
October 1907 completed
1908 purchased by North Shipping Co Ltd., (Hugh Roberts & Son, Managers) Newcastle – name unchanged
1909 renamed North Britain by her owners
11 April 1911 sailed Port Said
27 March 1913 sailed Las Palmas for Manchester
30 May 1913 arrived at Buenos Aires from Cardiff
18 July 1913 arrived at Las Palmas
28 July 1913 arrived at the River Tyne
10 September 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 3 March 1915
24 January 1915 off Tenedos sighted by HMS WELLAND
HMS WELLAND
4 February 1915 at Port Trebuki alongside HMS INFLEXIBLE until 5 February 1915 supplying the warship with 1,150 tons of bunker coal
20 January 1916 arrived at Norfolk
13 February 1916 arrived at Queenstown from New York for Cork
27 February 1916 redeployed as a collier until 5 April 1916
6 April 1916 redeployed as a sugar carrier until 2 July 1916
3 July 1916 redeployed as a collier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government until 2 October 1916
3 October 1916 redeployed as a collier until 7 March 1917. Off hire between 12 December 1916 until 27 January 1917
8 March 1917 redeployed as a wheat carrier from Karachi until 6 June 1917
7 June 1917 redeployed as a collier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government until 22 August 1917
23 August 1917 redeployed as a collier
1 June 1918 sailed Dakar in a convoy escorted by HMS MACEDONIA
12 May 1919 sailed Newport News for the River Tyne
12 January 1920 arrived Rosario from Savona
1932 purchased by J Zalcmanis K Jasons & J Freyman (Latvian Shipping Co. Managers), Riga and renamed Arija
1940 seized by the USSR – name unchanged
1941 seized by Deutsche Reich, Memel and renamed Wartheland
12 December 1944 bombed and sunk by British aircraft at Daviken, Nordfjord
1950 broken up in situ