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Official Number:                          106107

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Builder:                                       J L Thompson & Sons, North Sands, Sunderland

Pennant No:                       Y 3.1008 / F 6810

Launched:                                   17 August 1898

Into Service:                                20 January 1916

Out of service:                             16 July 1917

Fate:                                          16 July 1917 torpedoed and sunk

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:

17 August 1898 launched by J L Thompson & Sons, North Sands, Sunderland as Yard Nr: 364 named Valentia for International Line Steamship Co Ltd.,  (G Marwood, Managers)  Whitby

19 August 1898 Lloyds List newspaper reported …

September 1898 completed

3 October 1899 berthed at Cork, Ireland sailing the same day

10 June 1901 arrived at Malta

18 December 1902 arrived at Nicolaleft from Genoa

14 October 1903 passed Brow Head sailing east

6 December 1904 sailed from Cork

14 February 1915 sailed Maderia

26 February 1915 arrived at Leith Roads berthing in Leith Docks later that day

5 March 1915 sailed Leith Docks for Sunderland

6 March 1915 arrived at Sunderland

22 April 1915 sailed Sunderland for Buenos Aires

24 April 1915 landed the pilot at Deal and passed Dungeness later that day

1 May 1915 sailed Maderia

25 May 1915 arrived at Buenos Aires

11 June 1915 sailed Buenos Aires for Rosario

12 June 1915 sailed Rosario

26 June 1915 sailed Rosario

28 June 1915 passed Monte Video

22 July 1915 sailed Teneriffe for Londonderry

31 July 1915 passed Inishtrahull and arrived at Moville

1 August 1915 berthed at Londonderry

16 August 1915 sailed Londonderry for Cardiff

18 August 1915 arrived Barry Roads

19 August 1915 berthed at Cardiff

27 August 1915 sailed Cardiff for Sekondi

4 September 1915 passed Las Palmas

14 September 1915 arrived at Sekondi

10 October 1915 sailed Sekondi for Buenos Aires Roads

3 November 1915 arrived Buenos Aires Roads

5 November 1915 sailed Buenos Aires Roads for San Nicholas arriving the next day

13 November 1915 sailed San Nicholas for Ramallo arriving the same day

25 November 1915 sailed Ramallo for Nantes, France

4 December 1915 sailed Rio de Janeiro

20 December 1915 sailed St Vincent, Cape Verde Islands

3 January 1916 arrived St Nazaire

4 January 1916 berthed at Nantes

20 January 1916 sailed Nantes for Barry Roads. Requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 2 March 1916

23 January 1916 berthed at Barry

30 January 1916 sailed Barry

7 February 1916 at sea at 32°20N 17°57W stopped and boarded by HMS KING ALFRED and allowed to proceed

13 February 1916 arrived at St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands 

3 March 1916 sailed St Vincent, Cape Verde Islands for Mobile. Re-deployed as a Transport carrying timber for the Office Works until 4 June 1916

23 March 1916 Arrived at Mobile

5 June 1916 re-deployed as a collier and was then released in November 1916

11 September 1916 arrived at Dar-es-Salaam

12 September 1916 sailed Dar-es-Salaam

13 September 1916 arrived at Mikindani and berthed alongside HMS TRENT. While doing so damaging the warships port quarter rail and stanchion and fracturing port middle gangway. Supplied HMS TRENT with 73 tons of drinking water and 30 tons of boiler water

14 September 1916 at Mikindani alongside HMS HYACINTH supplying 400 tons of bunker coal

19 September 1916 at Lindi Bay alongside HMS TALBOT

21 September 1916 at Lindi Bay berthed alongside HMS TALBOT and suppling 352 tons of bunker coal

22 September 1916 arrived at Kilwa Kivinje. HMS SEVERN berthed alongside and was supplied with 153 tons of bunker coal

24 September 1916 arrived at Zanzibar, berthed alongside HMS HIMALAYA and supplied bunker coal

25 September 1916 at Zanzibar still alongside HMS HIMALAYA and completed the supply of 533 tons of bunker coal

26 September 1916 at Zanzibar berthed alongside HMS TRENT and supplied 120 tons of bunker coal

28 September 1916 sailed Zanzibar

29 September 1916 entered Dar-es-Salaam harbour

2 November 1916 arrived at Zanzibar

8 March 1917 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying MT from London for 1 trip and then from Portsmouth until 6 July 1917

7 July 1917 re-deployed as a collier until …

16 July 1917 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UC-41 (Kurt Berrnis) in the Atlantic 70 miles W ½ S Bishop Rock while on passage from Cardiff to Dakar with a general cargo and coal with the loss of three lives