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Official Number:                      118651

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Builder:                                   R Stephenson & Co Ltd., Hebburn

Pennant No:                            Y 3.997 / Y 2.123 / G.8210

Launched:                               6 December 1904

Into Service:                            11 January 1916

Out of service:                         1918

Fate:                                      21 December 1939 hit a mine & sank

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:

6 December 1904 launched by R Stephenson & Co Ltd., Hebburn as Yard Nr: 86 named RELIANCE for MacIntyre Bros & Co., Newcastle

March 1905 completed

1913 purchased by Manoravon Steamship Co Ltd., Newcastle – name unchanged

11 January 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Collier – name unchanged – until 10 February 1916

14 May 1916 re-deployed as an Ammunition Carrier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government until 29 May 1916

30 May 1916 re-deployed as a Collier until 27 June 1916

28 June 1916 re-deployed as a Sugar carrier until 26 September 1916

27 September 1916 re-deployed as an Ammunition Carrier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government until 2 January 19173 January 1917 re-deployed as a Collier until 23 March 1917

24 March 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport for the carriage of Indian Grain until 17 April 1918

September 1917 purchased by Griffiths Lewis Steam Navigation Ltd., and renamed GRELBEN

18 April 1918 re-deployed as a Collier

3 July 1918 at Mudros while anchored in C9 berth with HMS LIVERPOOL berthed alongside supplying her with 255 tons of bunker coal

1919 purchased by Marine Transport Co Ltd., Newcastle – name unchanged

1921 renamed DEEMSTER by her owners

1923 purchased by Joseph Constantine Steamship Line Ltd., Middlesborough and renamed BRIARWOOD

1928a purchased by P Regier, Riga and renamed SELONIA

1928b purchased by Parobrodarsko Akcionarsko Drustvo “Progres”, Split and renamed OREBIC

1935 purchased by Minster Steamship Co. Ltd., Valetta and renamed ORMINSTER

1936 purchased by Societe Anonime di nav “Mare Nostrum”, Genoa and renamed COMITAS

21 December 1939 struck a mine off Flushing and was beached off Rammehens while on passage from Djibouti to Antwerp in ballast