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Official Number:                       102838

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Builder:                                   C S Swan & Hunter, Wallsend on Tyne

Launched:                               February 1894

Pennant No:                             Y 3.71

Into Service:                            28 July 1914

Out of service:                         7 May 1917

Fate:                                      7 May 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:

February 1894 completed by C S Swan & Hunter, Wallsend on Tyne as Yard Nr:191 named Repton for Repton Steamship Co Ltd., (Galbraith, Pembroke & Co., Managers) London

1897 transferred to Austin Friars Steamship Co Ltd., (Galbraith, Pembroke & Co., Managers) London

28 July 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 28 October 1914

24 August 1914 at sea off Abrolhos Rocks stopped by HMS GLASGOW, checked and allowed to proceed

13 September 1914 and 14 September 1914 at the Abrolhos Rocks anchorage alongside HMS BRISTOL supplying 1,005 tons of bunker coal

HMS BRISTOL

17 September 1914 at the Abrolhos Rocks anchorage alongside HMS CORNWALL supplying 1,237 tons of bunker coal

22 September 1914 and 23 September 1914 at the Abrolhos Rocks anchorage alongside HMS CANOPUS supplying 660 tons of bunker coal

20 November 1915 re-deployed as a collier until 17 December 1915

1917 Houlder Middleton & Co., London appointed as Managers

2 April 1917 re-deployed as a collier until …

7 May 1917 torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean by German submarine UB-43 (Horst Obermuller) 45 miles SSE from Cape Matapan in position 35.42N 22.57E while on passage from Hull to Malta and Mudros with a cargo of coal with the loss of three lives