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Official No:                              120108

Builder:                                    Swan, Hunter & Wigham, Richardson, Low Walker, Newcastle

Launched:                               23 September 1907

Pennant No:                            Y9.20

Into Service:                           1914

Out of service:                        1918

Fate:                                         2 February 1926 collision 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:

23 September 1907 launched by Swan, Hunter & Wigham, Richardson, Low Walker, Newcastle as Yard  Nr 788 named WHIMBREL for Cork Steamship Co Ltd, Cork

26 September 1907 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …

October 1907  completed

20 February 1908 arrived Liverpool from Manchester

2 April 1908 arrived at Liverpool from Rotterdam

24 August 1908 sailed Manchester for Rotterdam

10 November 1908 berthed at Dundee from Rotterdam

12 November 1908 arrived at Liverpool

21 December 1908 entered the Eastham Locks for Manchester with a cargo of flints

4 March 1909 arrived at Manchester from Rotterdam

8 August 1909 sailed Liverpool for Rotterdam

22 August 1909 sailed Liverpool for Ghent

28 November 1909 sailed Manchester for Rotterdam

4 January 1910 arrived at Manchester from Antwerp

28 February 1910 berthed at Oporto from Cardiff

20 September 1910 arrived at Liverpool from Rotterdam

25 September 1910 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

31 October 1910 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west

5 December 1910 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing east

1914 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as a Stores Ship, name unchanged. Described by Dittmar & Colledge as a Squadron Supply Ship

5 October 1914 challenged by HMS CAESAR while on passage from Manchester to Rotterdam and allowed to proceed

HMS CAESAR

6 January 1915 at North Shields, River Tyne one cell prisoner transferred to HMS JUPITER

HMS JUPITER

1918 returned to her owners

11 December 1919 reported by radio she had sighted a floating mine at 2 miles s by E from Delpier

1922 purchased by British & Continental SS Co Ltd, Liverpool, name unchanged

4 November 1923 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizzard sailing east

26 February 1925 at St Elizabeth Hospital, Antwerp Donkeyman Eusebio Urrutia discharged dead after an operation. Had entered the hospital on 17 February 1925 from the ship

2 February 1926 sank in position 51.26.04 N 03.34.02 E after a collision with the Allan Line passenger cargo vessel MARLOCH while on passage from Glasgow to Antwerp. 

ss MARLOCH