Official Number: 99738
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Builder: Ailsa Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Ayr
Launched: 2 May 1908
Into Service: 9 December 1914
Out of service: 17 August 1916
Fate: torpedoed and sunk 24 March 1943
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 May 1908 launched by Ailsa Shipbuilding Co Ltd., Ayr as Yard Nr: 208A named Tosca for W W C Smith & Co., Ayr
June 1908 completed
23 December 1909 at Invergordon Stoker James Borland discharged dead – drowned
27 March 1914 berthed at Burry Port from Portreath to load
28 March 1914 sailed Burry Port for Guernsey with a cargo of coal
10 July 1914 berthed at Middlesborough
4 August 1914 berthed at Grangemouth from Middlesborough with a cargo of pig iron
17 August 1914 berthed at Sunderland
9 December 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as an Ammunition Carrier – name unchanged
1 January 1915 on buoys in the River Tyne
30 January 1915 at Cromarty HMS DONEGAL discharged rifles and ammunition to Tosca
HMS DONEGAL
17 August 1916 returned to her owners
1916 purchased by F T Eberhardt – name unchanged
1918 purchased by F T Everard, Greenhithe – name unchanged
14 March 1918 at the River Seine, France Steward Robert W Lumley discharged dead – drowned. His body was found in the River Seine on 6 April 1918
1922 owners became F T Everard & Sons, Greenhithe – name unchanged
9 April 1923 arrived at Plymouth
1926 purchased by W A Wilson, Southampton
1933 purchased by G B Figari, Antonio Maggiolo & Co., (Gio Batta Figari, Managers) Genoa – name unchanged
1940 purchased by G M Scotto, Genoa – name unchanged
23 March 1943 while on passge from Termini Imerese to Messina she was torpedoed by the submarine HMS SAHIB between Cape Orlando and Cape Milazzo
24 March 1943 sank 1 mile off Cape Calava