Official Number: 125653
Laid down:
Builder: R Craggs & Sons, Dent’s Wharf, Middlesborough
Pennant No: Y 3.313
Launched: 19 November 1907
Into Service: 14 September 1914
Out of service: 12 May 1917
Fate: 12 May 1917 captured, torpedoed and sunk
Items of historic interest involving this ship: –
Background Data: One of a group of additional ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the RFA
Career Data:
19 November 1907 launched by J L Thompson & Sons Ltd., North Sands, Sunderland as Yard No: 462 named Zanoni for Turner, Brightman & Co., London
13 December 1907 sailed the River Wear on her trial trip
December 1907 completed
15 December 1907 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on St Catherines Point sailing west bound for Cardiff
14 September 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 25 September 1915
4 May 1915 at Niororo Island
7 May 1915 at Tirene Bay alongside HMS CHATHAM supplying 320 tons of bunker coal
HMS CHATHAM
17 May 1915 off Mafia Island alongside HMS LACONIA supplying 334 tons of bunker coal
21 May 1915 arrived at the Mafia Channel. Berthed alongside HMS LACONIA to receive stores
31 May 1915 at Tirene Bay alongside HMS PIONEER
1 June 1915 at Tirene Bay alongside HMS ECHO
5 June 1915 at Niororo Island with HMS HYACINTH
7 June 1915 at the Mafia Channel received condemned stores from HMS WEYMOUTH for carriage to Simonstown
8 June 1915 alongside HM Whaler CHILDERS
26 September 1915 re-deployed as a Transport carrying sugar until 23 December 1915
24 December 1915 re-deployed as a collier until 29 March 1916
12 July 1916 re-deployed as a collier until 6 August 1916
12 May 1917 captured and torpedoed by German submarine (Johannes Klasing) in the Mediterranean 12 miles NE x E Cape Oropesa, Spain in position 40.10N 00.25E while on passage from the River Tyne to Genoa with a cargo of coal with the loss of one life