Requisitioned Auxiliary – Raloo

 Raloo

 

Raloo 

 

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 …

 

22 8 1898 Lloyds List Raloo

 

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