Official Number:                     99098

Laid down:

Builder:                                 W B Thompson & Co Ltd., Dundee

Pennant No:

Launched:                             12 May 1892

Into Service:                          4 August 1914

Out of service:                       22 November 1915

Fate:                                     29 December 1917 grounded & total loss

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:

 12 May 1892 launched by W B Thompson & Co Ltd., Dundee as Yard Nr: 115 named Peregrine for General Steam Navigation Co Ltd., London

24 June 1892 completed for her owner’s London – Hamburg service carrying 250 passengers

5 April 1909 sailed Harwick to Hamburg

23 July 1909 arrived at Hamburg from Hull

1 June 1910 the Hull Daily Mail reported –

4 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as Fleet Supply Ship No: 6 – a stores carrier – name unchanged

9 December 1914 at Chatham Dockyard

19 December 1914 sailed Chatham to the Firth of Forth

28 December 1914 at anchor off Rosyth Dockyard

29 December 1914 alongside at Rosyth discharging Naval Stores

2 January 1915 sailed Rosyth to Leith Docks arrived the same day. Berthed alongside HMS VULCAN

5 January 1915 sailed Leith Docks to Chatham Dockyard arriving 10 January 1915

13 January 1915 sailed Chatham to Erith Roads thence to dry dock at Deptford Green

21 January 1915 sailed Deptford Green to Chatham Dockyard arriving the same day

22 November 1915 deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport until 23 February 1916

2 July 1916 arrived at Leith

31 July 1916 at Scapa Flow

8 February 1917 used her speed to escape from an enemy submarine which tried to shell her

29 December 1917 while on passage from Rotterdam to London with 59 passengers and 33 crew aboard, ran aground on Longsands near the Sunk Light Vessel off the Essex coast

30 December 1917 the Walton on the Naze lifeboat came alongside her at daybreak to take the passengers and 2 of her crew off then returned a couple of hours later to take off the remainder. The ship had broken her back on the falling tide and became a total loss

1918 Royal National Lifeboat Institute Silver Medal awarded to Coxswain W Hammond and Bronze Medal to Second Coxswain J C Byford for the rescue of 92 people, many of them women and children, in a service lasting all night, from the ss Peregrine wrecked on Long Sand in an east by north gale and tempestuous seas (see above). The vessel stranded at 2230 and after a long and difficult search in darkness and sleet the lifeboat got alongside at the sixth attempt. All 59 passengers and the chief steward were taken off and transferred to a patrol vessel before the lifeboat returned to the wreck, now in two parts, and took off the remaining 32 crew members. The lifeboat was severely damaged during this service.