Official Number:                       133513

Pennant No:                     Y.7.49

Laid down:

Builder:                                   Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Willington Quay

Launched:                               2 July 1912

Into Service:                            21 October 1914

Out of service:                         1918

Fate:                                      Broken up 1933

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:

2 July 1912 launched by Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Willington Quay as Yard Nr 183 named RUSSIAN PRINCE for Prince Line Ltd (J. Knott, Manager) Newcastle.

September 1912  completed

16 September 1912 sailed Amsterdam

2 October sailed Norfolk

3 November 1912 sailed Tampa

22 January 1913 sailed Tampico

11 February 1913 sailed New York

15 March 1913 sailed Tampico

18 May 1913 sailed Tampico

13 June 1913 at Galveston

27 August 1913 at Tampico River Chief Cook Paul Panach discharged dead – drowned

30 March 1914 sailed Aransas

11 June 1914 sailed Aransas

25 July 1914 arrived New Orleans

21 October 1914  requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Oiler, name unchanged until 5 May 1915 at a cost of £2750 per months

9 October 1914 off Prawle Point on passage to Dartmouth

9 November 1914 off New York sighted by HMS CARONIA

15 April 1915 at Rosyth alongside HMS PRINCESS ROYAL refuelling her – issued 225 tons of FFO.  Sailed Rosyth

HMS PRINCESS ROYAL

20 April 1915 at Rosyth alongside HMS PRINCESS ROYAL refuelling her – issued 98 tons of FFO

9 June 1915 berthed at New Orleans having sailed from the Tees

2 July 1915 at New York

August 1916 owners purchased by Furness Withy & Co Ltd name unchanged

15 January 1917 re-deployed as an oiler for the Admiralty

31 December 1917 at sea at 60.2N 16.5E challenged by HMS ALSATION – flying the correct flag of the day and was allowed to proceed

1918 purchased by British Tanker Co Ltd, London and renamed BRITISH MARSHALL

15 June 1919 berthed at Port Eades from the River Tyne

16 June 1919 cleared for London

31 July 1919 passed the Delaware Breakwater outward bound for Manchester

25 November 1919 arrived at Barrow from Philadelphia

16 March 1920 sailed Port Arthur, Texas

3 May 1920 passed West Key, Florida westbound

28 May 1920 berthed at Liverpool from Port Arthur

7 November 1920 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard steaming east bound

28 February 1921 arrived at Port Arthur, Texas from Thameshaven

23 June 1921 sailed Port Eads, New Orleans for London

4 April 1922 arrived at Port Eads, New Orleans from Calais, France

7 September 1922 before Bristol Police Court Samuel Wilson appeared charged with stealing food from the ship. He pleaded Guilty and was fined £1 or 11 days imprisonment

Press Cutting from Western Daily Press of 8 September 1922

29 January 1924 at 42.29N 58.31W Sailor Thomas Carney discharged dead from heart failure

2 September 1925 reported she had gone aground in thick fog on the Pearl Rock on the Spanish side of Gibraltar Bay. She was found grounded near Ceuta. She was refloated and sailed. During her time aground a quanity of petrol escaped, caught fire and damage was caused ashore

Press cutting from the Hull Daily Mail of 3 September 1925

Press cutting from the Western Morning Mail of 5 September 1925

14 October 1925 berthed at Grangemouth

14 February 1926 berthed at Salt End Jetty, Hull from Swansea

19 April 1926 the s.s. Deansway issued an SOS call which was answered by the British Marshall and she was taken in towed to Swansea

3 February 1927 at St Joseph’s Hospital, Frederica Pumpman Angus Henderson discharged dead from natural causes

26 June 1928 arrived at Avonmouth

18 July 1928 off Lands End on passage to Antwerp

28 October 1928 at Swansea Bosun Joseph Redsull discharged dead from heart failure

1930 purchased by Soc Italiana Transporti Petroliferi, Genoa and renamed TRITONE

7 March 1933 wrecked on rocks off Marmara Point, Tenedos while on passage from Algiers to Constanta in ballast

12 March 1933 refloated and towed to Chanak the following day

12 May 1933 arrived La Spezia for demolition by Italian breakers

Notes:

She was one of 4 tankers taken over by Furness Withy in 1916 which had been built for the oil trade from the Black Sea and America to Europe. This interest was abandoned in 1918 and the 4 tankers were sold.