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Official Number: 124298
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Builder: Sunderland Shipbuilding Co Ltd., Sunderland
Launched: 7 September 1911
Pennant No: Y 3.92 / F 6812
Into Service: 28 August 1914
Out of service: 28 October 1917
Fate: 28 October 1917 torpedoed and sunk
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Background Data: One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA
Career Data:
7 September 1911 launched by Sunderland Shipbuilding Co Ltd., South Dock, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 266 named Redesmere for Watson Steamship Co Ltd., (T C Maycock, Manager), Manchester
November 1911 completed
24 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 11 March 1917 during the period 28 October 1915 until 24 November 1915 completed an off pay voyage
1916 purchased by Bromport Steamship Co Ltd., (Harold L Greenhalgh, Manager) Manchester – name unchanged
12 March 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying British timber to France until 3 April 1917
4 April 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 27 June 1917
28 June 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying cross-Channel hay until 8 July 1917
9 July 1917 re-deployed as a collier until …
28 October 1917 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-40 (Hans Howaldt) in the English Channel 6 miles WSW of St Catherine’s Point while on passage from Barry to Southampton with a cargo of coal and with the loss of 19 lives