Requisitioned Auxiliary – Zephyr

  

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Official Number:                         120825

Laid down:                                  

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

 

 

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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 …

 

27 08 1904 Lloyds List Zephyr

 

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