Official Number: 110022
Laid down:
Builder: J L Thompson & Sons Ltd., North Sands, Sunderland
Pennant No: Y 3.18 / Y 2.186
Launched: 2 September 1898
Into Service: 15 January 1916
Out of service: 1918
Fate: 1944 broken up
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:
2 September 1898 launched by J L Thompson & Sons Ltd., North Sands, Sunderland as Yard No: 362 named Zingara for Turner, Brightman & Co., London
3 September 1898 the Shields Daily News newspaper reported …
December 1898 completed
5 January 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier – name unchanged – until 18 February 1916
3 June 1916 re-deployed as an Armanents Carrier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government a/c and was then released to the Hudson’s Bay Co., London – until 12 October 1916
24 June 1916 stopped and boarded by HMS ESSEX – allowed to proceed
9 January 1917 re-deployed as a collier until 5 February 1917
6 February 1917 re-deployed as a Transport carrying sugar from Cuba until 4 May 1917
5 May 1917 re-deployed as an Armanents Carrier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government a/c until 4 July 1917
5 July 1917 re-deployed re-deployed as a collier to Northern Russia for the Russian Government a/c until 2 October 1917
3 October 1917 redeployed as a collier until 11 December 1917
12 December 1917 re-deployed as a Transport carrying grain from Argentina until 3 April 1918
23 January 1918 sailed from Dakar in a convoy escorted by HMS MOTAGUA
4 April 1918 re-deployed as a collier and finally as a Transport carrying wheat from Canada until 2 November 1918
5 April 1918 a torpedo fired at her in the Irish Sea missed
23 April 1918 sailed Dakar in a convoy with eight other ships and escorted by HMS MONTAGUE
30 January 1918 left the convoy with two other ships for the Mediterrean
1930 purchased by Cie Franco-Africaine de Nav (Transmarine de Navigation S.A.) Rouen and renamed Djena
1937 purchased by S Farkouh & P Feret, Piraeus and renamed Lana
1939 owner now P Feret, Marseilles and renamed Bona
1941 hulked at Rouen
1944 reported as broken up locally