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Official Number:                        120932

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Builder:                                   Mackay Brothers Alloa

Launched:                               13 March 1906

Pennant No:                            Y 4.36

Into Service:                           23 July 1915

Out of service:                        2 August 1915

Fate:                                     Captured and sunk

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:

13 March 1906 launched by Mackay Bros., Alloa as Yard Nr: 4 named Portia for South Wales & Liverpool SS Co Ltd., (R Gilchrist & Co., Managers) Liverpool

April 1906 completed

23 July 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Fleet Messenger – name unchanged. Lt-Cdr Langton Bromwell Royal Navy (Rtd) was the Commanding Officer

2 August 1915 captured by the German submarine U-28 (Georg-Günther Freiherr von Forstner) and sunk by gunfire 70 miles south of the Scilly Isles. No lives lost