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Official Number: 109022
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Builder: C S Swan & Hunter, Wallsend on Tyne
Launched: 25 November 1897
Pennant No: Y 3.758
Into Service: 26 June 1915
Out of service: 1918
Fate: 19 January 1928 broken up
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:
25 November 1897 launched by C S Swan & Hubter, Wallsend on Tyne as Yard Nr. 226 named Reresby for Denaby & Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Hull
April 1898 completed
1904 purchased by Birkdale Steamship Co Ltd., (Chas. Radcliffe & Co, Managers) Cardiff – name unchanged
16 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Collier – name unchanged – until 10 March 1916
23 February 1916 at Funchal, Maderia
5 March 1916 at Funchal, Maderia alongside HMS KING ALFRED supplying 940 tons of bunker coal
11 March 1916 re-deployed as a Transport carrying sugar until 13 May 1916
14 May 1916 re-deployed as a Collier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government a/c until 6 December 1916
19 June 1916 at sea at 60.09N 13.08E stopped by HMS ALSATIAN and boarded while on passage from Cardiff to Archangel. Allowed to proceed
7 December 1916 re-deployed as a Collier until 10 August 1917
11 August 1917 re-deployed as a Collier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government a/c until 29 November 1917
30 November 1917 re-deployed as a Collier until 1918
1926 purchaed by Ant. G. Loucas, Andros and renamed Marionga D Thermiotis
19 August 1927 arrived Corcubion with fire damage sustained on passage from CAdiz to Rotterdam with a cargo of wood, grain and oilcake
22 August 1927 was beached
26 August 1927 the fire was extinguished
30 August 1927 was refloated
19 January 1928 arrived at Rotterdam for demolition at Hendrik-ido-Ambacht