Background Data:  One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty in WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA

12 May 1892 launched by W.B. Thompson & Co Ltd, Dundee as Yard Nr 115 named  PEREGRINE for General Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London

24 June 1892 completed for her owner’s London – Hamburg service, carrying 250 passengers

4 August 1914 requisitioned by the Admiralty for services as a Store Carrier, name unchanged

August 1914 Lieutenant W S Hunnisett RNR appointed as Commanding Officer and Engineer G Wood RNR appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

22 November 1915 returned to owners

8 February 1917 attacked by an unknown submarine which tried to shell her. Escaped by her speed.

29 December 1917 while on passage from Rotterdam to London, with 59 passengers and 33 crew aboard, she ran aground on Longsand near the  Sunk Light Vessel off the Essex coast.

30 December 1917 the Walton-on-the-Naze lifeboat came alongside her at daybreak to take the passengers and 2 of her crew off then returned a couple of hours later to take off the remainder. The ship then broke her back on the falling tide and became a total loss