Official Number:                       112682

Laid down:

Builder:                                    Ropner & Sons, Stockton

Pennant No:                     Y 3.593 / G 8016

Launched:                               16 February 1900

Into Service:                            10 April 1915

Out of service:                         14 February 1918

Fate:                                       Torpedoed and sunk 14 February 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:

16 February 1900 launched by Ropner & Sons, Stockton as Yard Nr: 368 named Ventmoor for North Moor Steamships Co Ltd., (W Runciman & Co, Managers) Newcastle

March 1900 completed

25 June 1900 berthed at Belfast

21 June 1901 sailed Sydney, NSW with a cargo of over 46,638 bags of wheat

3 July 1901 sailed Albany, Western Australia for South Africa

16 August 1901 passed Perim for Port Said

17 September 1901 arrived at Port Said

27 June 1902 arrived at Table Bay

25 October 1903 at Karachi Harbour Fireman James Shaples discharged dead – drowned

14 December 1903 arrived River Tyne

14 May 1904 arrived Port Said when on passage from Barry, Wales for Hong Kong

5 December 1904 arrived at Bombay from Genoa

22 March 1905 arrived Mobile from Genoa

10 February 1910 arrived at Natal

12 February 1911 sailed the River Tyne for Port Said

21 July 1912 at sea Apprentice Jack Allen Warren discharged dead – fever

7 April 1915 in Hospital in Bordeaux 1st Engineer John William Millar discharged dead from a spinal injury sustained onboard

10 April 1915 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 15 June 1915

2 June 1915 at Bermuda berthed alongside HMS GLORY supplied her with bunker coal

16 June 1915 re-deployed as a Transport carrying sugar

1 September 1915 re-deployed as a collier until 9 May 1916

29 October 1915 arrived at Zanzibar

2 November 1915 to 4 November 1915 together with Collier St Egbert berthed alongside HMS LACONIA at Zanzibar supplied her with 1409 tons of bunker coal

17 November 1915 berthed alongside HMS HYACINTH at Zanzibar supplied her with 300 tons of bunker coal

27 November 1915 berthed alongside HMS HYACINTH at Zanzibar supplied her with 300 tons of bunker coal

3 December 1915 berthed alongside HMS HYACINTH at Zanzibar supplied her with 268 tons of bunker coal

9 December 1915 berthed alongside HMS HYACINTH at Zanzibar supplied her with 150 tons of bunker coal

17 December 1915 berthed alongside HMS THISTLE at Tirene Bay supplied her with bunker coal

21 June 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 26 July 1916

27 July 1916 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying rails between the USA and France until 3 November 1916

4 November 1916 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying munitions from the USA until 14 May 1917

19 March 1917 at sea Apprentice Donald Mason discharged dead from injuries sustained when he fell down the hold

15 May 1917 re-deployed as a collier

8 December 1917 at Milo alongside RFA BACCHUS (1) supplying stores

20 December 1917 & 21 December 1917 at Mudros alongside HMS RIBBLE and supplied her with 89 tons of bunker coal

14 February 1918 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UC-37 (Otto Kumpel) in the Aegean Sea 8 miles SW x W Skyros Light House in position 38°41N 26°36E while on passage from Mudros to Sfax in ballast with the loss of 21 lives