Ire fortiter quo nemo ante iit.

  
Remembering
Michael Walsh Leading Fireman RFA Creosol died 7th of february 1918
William Brocklehurst Scullion RFA Creosol died 7th of february 1918
W J Lawrence Donkeyman RFA Berta died 7th of february 1946
Battleship RFA Bayleaf
Battleship RFA Bayleaf

Builder: Harland and Wolff, Belfast

Yard No: 270

Launched: 23rd August 1893

Tonnage: 8,315 grt

Length:  500 feet
Beam: 60.2 feet

Machinery: Triple expansion engines, 2 shafts.

Speed: 13 knots


Launched in 1893 for the Oceanic Steam Navigation Co, as the Passenger Cargo ship ‘Cevic’, she was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1914 for conversion to the Dummy Battleship ‘HMS Queen Mary’, the ship was converted into an Admiralty Tanker in 1915, under the name ‘RFA Bayol’, which was renamed ‘RFA Bayleaf’ in 1917, and was placed under the management of Lane and MacAndrews until 1920, when she was sold to Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co and renamed ‘Pyrula’

 

The ship was broken up at Genoa in October 1933.
 

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