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Official Number:                       125429

Pennant No:                            Y 3.197

Laid down:

Builder:                                   S P Austin & Son, Wear Dock, Sunderland

Launched:                               12 January 1907

Into Service:                            January 1916

Out of service:                         14 March 1918

Fate:                                       Torpedoed and sunk 14 March 1918

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:

12 January 1907 launched by S P Austin & Son, Wear Dock, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 239 named TWEED for The John George Hill Steam Shipping Co Ltd ) John W Witherington & Harry P Everett, Managers) Newcastle

September 1907 completed

12 June 1908 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on Prawle Point sailing west bound for Cardiff

15 June 1908 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on Prawle Point sailing east bound from Cardiff

22 June 1908 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on St Catherines Point sailing east bound

26 August 1908 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on Prawle Point sailing east bound from Cardiff

14 January 1909 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on St Catherines Point sailing west bound

21 January 1909 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on Prawle Point sailing west bound

5 February 1909 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on Prawle Point sailing west bound for Barry

15 February 1909 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on St Catherines Point sailing east bound for Newcastle

1 April 1909 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on St Catherines Point sailing west bound

5 April 1909 sailed from Bristol for Glasgow

12 May 1910 arrived at Cardiff from Glasgow

17 June 1910 sailed from Cardiff

12 May 1914 at Queenstown alongside HMS GRAFTON for coaling, then alongside HMS CRESCENT also for coaling

HMS CRESCENT

14 November 1914 at Scapa Flow alongside HMS FALMOUTH supplying 335 tons of bunker coal

January 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged

17 April 1917 at Queenstown HMS JESSAMINE berthed alongside assisted by the tug Warrior. Received 120 tons of bunker coal

14 March 1918 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UC75 in St George’s Channel, 15 miles SSE Tushar Rock while on passage from the Clyde to Devonport with a cargo of coal. Seven of the crew were killed