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Official Number: 115803
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Builder: William Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool
Launched: 25 February 1902
Pennant No: Y 3.47
Into Service: 3 August 1914
Out of service: 4 March 1917
Fate: 4 March 1917 captured and scuttled
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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:
25 February 1902 launched by William Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool as Yard Nr. 657 named Rhodanthe for London Marine Steamship Co. Ltd., London
April 1902 completed
24 August 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 19 August 1915
16 November 1915 re-deployed as a collier until 28 January 1916
2 May 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 3 August 1916
22 September 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 16 February 1917
17 February 1917 re-deployed as a transport carrying sugar from Cuba until …
4 March 1917 captured and scuttled by the German Merchant Cruiser SMS Mowe 330 miles NNW of Cape Vincent, Cape Verde Islands while on passage from Algiers to Jamaica in ballast