Official Number: 128309
Class: Stores Carrier
Pennant Number: Y9.19
Laid down:
Builder: Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Low Walker Yard
Launched: 7 November 1912
Into Service: 7 November 1914
Out of service: 8 October 1915
Fate: Sunk by a mine
Items of historic interest involving this ship: -
Background Data: One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty in WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA
7 November 1912 Launched by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Low Walker Yard, Newcastle as Yard Nr 894 named VANELLUS for Cork Steamship Co Ltd, Cork
1912 Captain J. Walsh was Master
December 1912 completed
7 November 1914 requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as a Stores Carrier
22 February 1915 Petty Officer William L. Card discharged dead
8 October 1915 returned to her owners
1 October 1916 while on passage from Portishead to Rouen with a cargo of petrol struck a mine which had been laid by UC-26 (Kapitanleutnant Matthias Graf Von Schmettow) in Le Havre Roads, caught fire and sank with loss of 3 lives. 3rd Engineer Joseph Conolly was awarded the Albert Medal, Second Class, for his actions in savings lifes as a result of the fire. In consequence of his actions he was badly burned. The medal was presented to Mr Conolly by H.M. King George V at Buckingham Palace on 24 February 1917. |
