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Official Number:                     135335

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Builder:                                 Scotts Shipbuilding Co, Greenock

Launched:                             27 November 1913

Into Service:                          16 July 1917 & 24 December 1917

Out of service:                       7 October 1917 &10 May 1918

Fate:                                    1918 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:

27 November 1913 launched by Scotts Shipbuilding Co, Greenock as Yard Nr: 449 name Tatarrax for Tank Storage & Carriage Co Ltd., (W.J.Smith, Managers), London

January 1914 completed

9 February 1914 while on passage from New York to Port Said put into Algiers with engine defects

19 December 1915 arrived at Walton Bay for Portishead from Singapore

31 December 1915 arrived at New York

1916 purchased by Standard Transportation Co Ltd., Hong Kong – name unchanged

25 April 1916 sailed Liverpool for Table Bay

9 June 1916 arrived at Walton Bay to berth at Portishead from Japan

2 July 1916 berthed at New York

16 July 1917 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Oiler – name unchanged by recorded as Oiler 214 until 7 October 1917 and also between 24 December 1917 until 10 May 1918

10 August 1918 torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC-34 in the Mediterranean off Rosetta in position 32.00N 30.45E while on passage from Port Said to Alexandria with a cargo of benzolew. Sixty one members of the crew were killed. Those without a known grave are remembered with pride on the Tower Hill Memorial, the Hong Kong Memorial, the Plymouth Naval Memorial and the Chatham Naval Memorial