8 March 1913 launched by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend as Yard Nr: 919 named ROSALIND for Oil Tank S.S. Co Ltd (C.T. Bowring & Co Ltd, Managers) Liverpool

April 1913 completed

28 November 1913 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an oiler, name unchanged.

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Official Number:                      135452

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Builder:                                  Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson , Wallsend

Pennat Number:                     Y 7.9

Launched:                              8 March 1913

Into Service:                           28 November 1913

Out of service:                        6 April 1917

Fate:                                     6 April 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:

8 March 1913 launched by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend as Yard Nr: 919 named ROSALIND for Oil Tank S.S. Co Ltd (C.T. Bowring & Co Ltd, Managers) Liverpool

April 1913 completed

28 November 1913 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an oiler (Oiler No: 9) , name unchanged – pre war charter rate £7,021 13sh p.m. for 1 year. During the war the charter rate was £4,135 pm and after 6 months this increased to £4,622 p.m.

30 July 1915 at Port Arthur, Texas Fireman & Trimmer Bernard McEnaney discharged dead from apoplexy

12 September 1915 while on passage from Immigham to Port Arthur, Texas at 59.03N 11.00W stopped and boarded by the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS CHANGUINOLA – allowed to proceed

6 April 1917 she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-86 in position 51.39 N 14.20 W about 180 miles WNW of Fastnet Rock while on passage from Port Arthur, Texas to Queenstown, Ireland with a cargo of oil with the loss of 2 lives – Fireman & Trimmer John Collins and Fireman & Trimmer William Griffiths