Requisitioned Auxiliary – Rhodanthe

 

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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

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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