Official Number:                     135498

Laid down:

Builder:                                 Tyne Iron SB Co, Willington Quay

Launched:                              5 August 1913 

Into Service:                           WW1

Out of service:                        23 August 1915

Fate:                                     23 August 1915 captured and sunk by scuttling charges

Background Data:  One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA.

Career Details:

5 August 1913 launched by Tyne Iron SB Co, Willington Quay as Yard Nr: 187 named Silvia for Oil Tank SS Co., (C T Bowring & Co Ltd., Managers) Liverpool

7 August 1913 the Newcastle Journal newspaper reported …

September 1913 completed

20 January 1915 off Fair Isle met HMS DONEGAL

20 July 1915 at Halifax N S alongside HMS CARNARVON

HMS CARNARVON

23 August 1915 while on passage from Halifax N S to Queenstown, Ireland with a cargo of oil fuel she was captured by U38 off SW Ireland and was sunk by scuttling charges 47 miles W of Fastnet Rock in position 51.70N 10.46W. No casualties