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Official Number: 90916
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Builder: Ramage & Ferguson Ltd., Leith
Pennant No: Y 3.447
Launched: 18 January 1897
Into Service: 17 November 1914
Out of service: 6 February 1917
Fate: Torpedoed and sunk 6 February 1917
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:
18 January 1897 launched by Ramage & Ferguson Ltd., Leith as Yard Nr: 147 named Vestra for J T Salvesen & Co Ltd., Grangemouth
February 1897 completed
25 December 1897 sailed Gravesend to Rotterdam
19 January 1899 arrived Gibraltar
27 January 1899 sailed Falmouth for Ipswich
15 April 1904 arrived Gravesend from Barcelona
4 July 1905 arrived Gravesend from Oxelosund
19 April 1911 at Stockholm 2nd Mate Edward McCallum discharged dead from natural causes
5 March 1913 arrived at Gravesend from Valencia
23 February 1914 arrived at Gravesend from Valencia
17 November 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 7 May 1916
6 February 1917 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-35 (Rudolf Gebeschus) in the North Sea 5 miles NE Hartlepool in position 54.46N 01.07W on passage from the River Tyne to Rouen with a cargo of coal with the loss of 2 lives