Requisitioned Auxiliary – Yearby

 

Yearby 01

 Yearby 01

 

Official Number:                         106956

Laid down:

Builder:                                       Ropner & Son, Stockton

Pennant Number:                       Y 3.1378

Launched:                                  19 November 1896

Into Service:                               18 December 1916

Out of service:                            1919

Fate:                                           4q / 1932 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 augument the RFA

Career Data:

19 November 1896 launched by Ropner & Son, Stockton as Yard Nr: 330 named Yearby for R Ropner & Co., West Hartlepool

24 November 1896 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …

 

24 11 1896 Lloyds List Yearby

 

December 1896 completed

16 January 1902 sailed Rosario for Hamburg

10 June 1902 sailed Rosario for Rotterdam

18 February 1910 sailed Theodosia

17 March 1910 sailed Lisbon

1916 owners became Sir Robert Ropner & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool – name unchanged

18 December 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Collier – name unchanged – until 27 February 1918

28 February 1918 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying ammunition empties from Le Havre to Blyth until 10 March 1918

11 March 1918 re-deployed as a collier until 22 March 1918

23 March 1918 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying ammunition empties from Le Havre to Newport, Monmouth for 1 trip thence re-deployed as a collier until 10 May 1918

11 May 1918 re-deployed as an Expeditionary Force Transport carrying ammunition empties from Le Havre to Newport, Monmouth for 1 trip

1919 sold to M H Bland & Co Ltd., Gibraltar and renamed Gibel Yedid

20 September 1920 in wireless communication with Lands End

1925 sold to S N Valmades, Syra and renamed India

1st quarter 1931 broken up at Rotterdam by G B Pas & Sons