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Official Number:                          118378

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Builder:                                      Wigham Richardson & Co, Neptune Yard, Low Walker-on-Tyne

Pennant Number:                        Y3.???

Signal letters:                              VNGH

Launched:                                   18 January 1904

Into Service:                                4 June 1917

Out of service:                             27 March 1919

Disposal:                                    20 October 1950 raised & broken up

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 1904  launched by Wigham Richardson & Co, Neptune Yard, Low Walker-on-Tyne as Yard Nr 410 named YAT SHING for Indo-China Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London.

19 January 1904 the Shields Daily News newspaper reported …

11 February 1904 completed as a passenger / cargo vessel. Contract price £34,305

16 February 1904 Lloyds List newspaper reported …

3 February 1904 Register opened at London as Nr 14/1904 in the Register Book

11 March 1904 arrived at Port Said from Barry when on passage to Singapore

4 June 1917 requisitioned for service as a Collier until 30 July 1917.

31 July 1917 served as an Expeditionary Force Transport for D.R.I.M, Bombay and was transferred to the Liner Section

11 January 1919  with the Liner Section as a Transport until 27 March 1919

December 1941  seized by Japanese forces at Hong Kong and renamed NISSHO MARU

17July 1945 struck a mine laid by USAAF and sank in position 33.59°N 130.52°E off Yawata, Japan

20 October 1950 wreck was raised and broken up