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 Official Number:                      109588

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Builder:                                  Ramage & Ferguson Ltd., Leith

Launched:                               19 July 1898

Pennant No:                            Y 3.697

Into Service:                            20 May 1915

Out of service:                         March 1919

Fate:                                      12 March 1951 broken up

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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:

19 July 1898 launched by Ramage & Ferguson Ltd., Leith as Yard Nr. 158 named Reval for Ben Line  Steamers Co Ltd.,  (Wm Thomson & Sons, Managers) Leith

21July 1898 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …

August 1898 completed

28 May 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Collier – name unchanged – until 26 January 1917

27 January 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport until 10 February 1917

11 February 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 26 May 1917. During this re-deployment undertook an off pay voyage between 13 February 1917 and 17 March 1917

27 May 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport for one voyage carrying ammunition empties until 7 June 1917

11 July 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 21 September 1917

22 September 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport for one voyage carrying rags to Goole until 1 October 1917

2 October 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 1918

March 1919 returned to her owners

April 1919 while entering Leith Docks was in collision with the Belgian ss Peter Benoit

October 1924 purchased by Ulster Steamship Co Ltd., (G Heyn & Sons, Managers) Belfast and renamed Dunmore Head

29 September 1939 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Ammunition Hulk – name unchanged – was based at Loch Eil (Fort William) – name unchanged

12 March 1951 arrived Llanelly for demolition by Rees Shipbreaking Co Ltd.