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Official Number: 120825
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Builder: Dundee Shipbuilders Co Ltd., Dundee
Pennant Number: Y3.???
Signal Letters: HQDW
Launched: 13 July 1904
Into Service: 3 April 1918
Out of service: 1919
Fate: Broken up May 1951
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:
13 July 1904 launched by Dundee Shipbuilders Co Ltd., Dundee as Yard Nr: 147 named ZEPHYR for Sunderland Lighterage Co, Liverpool
27 August 1904 the Lloyds List newspaper reported …
17 January 1905 register opened at Liverpool as Nr: 3/1905 in the Register Book
January 1905 completed
3 April 1918 requisitioned for service as a Collier until 11 April 1918
12 April 1918 with the Home Trade Branch as a Transport until 13 January 1919
1920 sold to Scorrier Steam Coasters Ltd., (H.T. Griffin, Manager) Cardiff and renamed TORPOINT
By 1930 owners now Steam Coasters Ltd, Cardiff name unchanged
May 1951 demolition completed by P.K. Harris Ltd., Appledore