Official Number: 128310
Laid down:
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham, Richardson, Low walker, Newcastle
Launched: 15 September 1913
Into Service: 4 December 1914
Out of service: 24 June 1915
Fate: Sunk 26 November 1915
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:
15 September 1913 launched by Swan, Hunter & Wigham, Richardson, Low Walker, Newcastle as Yard Nr: 918 named TRINGA for Cork SS Co Ltd, Cork
October 1913 completed
13 August 1914 off Portland while on passage from Southampton to Cork challenged by HMS CAESAR – allowed to proceed
HMS CAESAR
4 December 1914 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as a Stores Carrier, name unchanged. Lieutenant Jas Carol Badger RNR appointed in command and Engineer John Thwaite Edwards RNR appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
5 December 1914 commissioned as HMS Tringa
24 June 1915 returned to her owners
17 August 1915 Able Seaman G Knutsson discharged dead – he is buried in Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey in Grave K38
Courtesy and © of The War Graves Photographic Project
29 August 1915 at Kephalo Bay alongside HMS ARK ROYAL embarking stores into the sea plane carrier
5 September 1915 at Mudros received surplus seaplanes and parts from the aircraft carrier HMS BEN-MY-CHREE for return to the UK
HMS BEN-MY-CHREE
18 September 1915 at Kephalo Bay alongside HMS ARK ROYAL embarking stores into the sea plane carrier
1 November 1915 in collision with Torpedo Boat 96 five miles east of Gibraltar. The TB 96 sank with the loss of two officers and nine ratings TB 96 was part of the Gibraltar Local Defence Flotilla
26 November 1915 captured and sunk by gunfire from the German U-33 (Kapitänleutnant Konrad Gansser) 30 miles NE x N of Galita Island, Tunisia while on passage from Malta – Gibraltar in ballast with the loss of 3 lives (the ships Master and two Stewards) each is remembered with pride on the Tower Hill Memorial. Survivors were in the lifeboats for around 20 hours before being rescued