Official Number:                      140450

Laid down:

Builder:                                      Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, Low Walker

Pennant No:                    Y3.1898 / Y8.118

Launched:                                 16 October 1917

Into Service:                              December 1917

Out of service:                          31 July 1919

Fate:                                           5 April 1928 grounded and wrecked

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 October 1917 launched by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd., Low Walker as Yard Nr: 925 named War Grange for the Shipping Controller

December 1917 completed, placed under management of Steel, Young & Co., and requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier, name unchanged

15 May 1918 torpedoed and damaged by German submarine U-55 in position 50.28N 05.07W seven miles north of Town Head and was beach at Newquay while on passage from Bordeaux to Cardiff in ballast. The Newquay life boat was launched but five members of the crew lost their lives

Those lost were –

November 1918 after repairs and having been re-engined she re-entered Admiralty service

11 March 1919 became a stores carrier, name unchanged

31 July 1919 returned to her owners, name unchanged

9 August 1919 purchased by Edoardo Mazza, Savona and renamed Giglio

26 March 1920 Captain Edward Newmarch of the ss War Grange was appointed a Member of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) details published in the London Gazette of this day

1927 purchased by Soc. di Nav Unione Italica, Rome name unchanged

5 April 1928 wrecked on Les Boeufs Rocks, off Noumoutier while on passage from Sfax to Basse Indre carrying phosphates