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Official Number: 122825
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Builder: J Readhead & Sons Ltd, South Shields
Pennant No: Y 3.253
Launched: 19 June 1905
Into Service: 24 August 1914
Out of service: 16 November 1914
Fate: 1914 captured and scuttled
Items of historic interest involving this ship: –
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:
19 June 1905 launched by J Readhead & Sons Ltd., South Shields as Yard Nr: 386 named North Wales for North Wales Shipping Co Ltd., (H Roberts & Co, Managers), Newcastle
20 June 1905 the Shields Daily News newspaper reported …
August 1905 completed
24 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged
19 October 1914 at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands supplied HMS CANOPUS with 1,250 tons of bunker coal
16 November 1914 captured by the German light cruiser Dresden and scuttled with explosives 360 miles SW¼W from Valparaiso while on passage from Cardiff to Valparaiso carryling coal