Requisitioned Auxiliary – Zingara

 

Zingara

 

Zingara 

 

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 …

 

3 9 1898 Shields Daily News Zingara

 

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