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Official Number: 97832
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Builder: Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee
Pennant No: Y8.85
Launched: November 1890
Into Service: 1914
Out of service: 1 April 1919
Fate: 1922 sold commercially
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:
November 1890 launched by J Jones & Sons, Liverpool as Yard Nr: 66 named Wirral for Birkenhead Council, Birkenhead
December 1890 completed as a ferry
1914 (?) requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Q ship
23 November 1915 at Salonika
29 July 1918 became a Stores Carrier – name unchanged. Also known as Storecarrier 85
1 April 1919 returned to her owners – name unchanged
1922 sold – further details unknown