Official Number:                       122955

Laid down:

Builder:                                   J Crown & Sons, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland

Launched:                               24 May 1906

Into Service:                            1 March 1915

Out of service:                         19 March 1919

Fate:                                      Broken up December 1931

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:

26 May 1906 launched by J Crown & Sons, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland as Yard Nr 119 named Rawcliffe for Wetherall Steam Shipping Co Ltd (John H Wetherall, Manager) Goole

June 1906 completed as a collier and sister to SALTMARSHE 

December 1906 purchased by Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co, Goole name unchanged

3 December 1906 berthed at Goole from Hamburg

22 March 1907 went aground at Goole – refloated with assistance

16 May 1907 berthed at Goole from Amsterdam 

6 June 1907 berthed at Goole from Amsterdam

28 September 1907 sailed Goole for Rotterdam with a cargo of coal

11 June 1909 while inbound from Hamburg with a general cargo went aground at Whitton

1 March 1915 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as an Ammunition Carrier, name unchanged

12 March 1919  returned to her owners

9 September 1920 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

26 September 1921 in the Terneuzen Canal in collision with the French steamer Dinard. The Dinard was badly damaged

1 January 1922  owners became London & North West Railway Co, Goole name unchanged

1 January 1923  owners became London, Midland & Scottish Railway Co, Goole name unchanged

15 September 1928 sailed Antwerp with a general cargo for Goole

5 January 1929 sailed Dunkirk for Goole

30 December 1929 arrived at Hull from Amsterdam

20 June 1930 arrived at Hull from Dunkirk

15 December 1931 arrived Bo’ness for demolition by P & W MacLellan Ltd