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Official Number:                      106995

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Builder:                                    William Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool

Launched:                               28 January 1899

Pennant No:                            Y 3.550

Signal Letters:                         QTVD

Into Service:                            14 March 1915

Out of service:                         1918

Fate:                                         26 March 1935 broken up

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:

28 January 1899 launched by William Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool as Yard Nr. 576 named Raithwaite for Pyman Steamship Co Ltd.,  (G Pyman & Co, Managers) West Hartlepool

4 March 1899 undertook builders trials then was taken over by her new owners as completed. She sailed for Barry to load a cargo of coal for Colombo, Ceylon

7 March 1899 sailed for Colombo. The ship’s Master was Captain Clark

27 April 1899 arrived at Akyab

24 May 1899 sailed Colombo for Port Said

17 June 1899 arrived at Suez from Akyab

4 August 1899 sailed Barry for St Vincent

26 August 1899 sailed St Vincent for New Orleans

27 September 1899 at Rotterdam

19 November 1899 sailed from Manchester for Buenos Ayres

9 January 1900 arrived at Buenos Ayres

9 May 1900 sailed the River Plate

22 November 1906 sailed Mobile for Buenos Aires

29 May 1907 arrived at Liverpool from Rosario

28 November 1908 arrived Newport News

8 September 1909 when on passage from Taganrog to Esbjerg in collision some 20 miles west of the Caskets with a French Barque Notre Dame d’Arvor suffering her bow stove in and making water. Damage to the Feench Barque unknown 

1 November 1909 sailed Aarhus

9 November 1909 on the River Tyne

31 January 1910 sailed New York

10 February 1910 at Pensacola

1 April 1910 arrived Oran

5 June 1913 sailed Cambleton for Liverpool

4 July 1913 sailed Liverpool for Pugwash

15 July 1913 arrived Pugwash from Liverpool

29 September 1913 sailed Liverpool for Savannah

14 March 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Collier – name unchanged – until 12 May 1917 with an off pay voyage between 14 February 1916 until 24 March 1916

30 July 1915 in the Channel Dry Dock at Cardiff

13 May 1917 re-deployed as a collier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government a/c until 20 November 1917

21 November 1917 re-deployed as a collier until returned to her owners in 1918

5 December 1917 purchased by Earl J Leslie, Dundee – name unchanged

6 September 1918 sailed Syra

1920 purchased by Henry W Rennie, Dundee – name unchanged

1925 purchased by A Cosmos, Syra and renamed Despina

1930 purchased by C A Petroutsis, Spetasi and renamed Anastasios Petroutsis

1935 purchased by Jos. Constantine Steamship Line Ltd., Middlesborough – name unchanged

March 1935 resold under “Scrap and Build” at Ghent for £4350

1 April 1935 arrived Charlestown for demolition by Metal Industries Ltd.

26 June 1935 demolition commenced