Official Number: 108627
Laid down:
Builder: Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., Troon
Launched: 18 August 1898
Pennant No: Y 3.174
Into Service: 7 August 1914
Out of service: 22 September 1914
Fate: Torpedoed and sunk 17 June 1917
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:
18 August 1898 launched by Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., Troon as Yard Nr 74 named Raloo for Shamrock Shipping Co Ltd., (T Jack, Manager), Larne
22 August 1898 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …
24 September 1898 ran trials and was completed
13 February 1903 in collision and sank the ss Hopefull off the Longships Light Vessel
24 July 1908 arrived at Rouen, France from Cardiff
2 January 1913 sailed Hull with a cargo of coal for Brixham
11 August 1913 arrived at Troon
7 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 22 September 1914
17 June 1917 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-61 (Victor Dieckmann) in St George’s Channel 6 miles SE x E Coningsbeg Light Vessel while on passge from Newport, Monmouthshire to Cork with a cargo of coal with the loss of three lives including the MAster