Requisitioned Auxiliary – Redesmere

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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