RFA Aquarius

Previous name:                     Hampstead

Subsequent name:               Santi                                                      

Class:

Pennant No:                         N 08

Laid down:
Builder:                                  Austin & Son, Wear Dock, Sunderland
Launched:                             25 September 1900
Into Service:                          1905
Out of service:                       1920 Sold out of service
Fate:                                        Wrecked

Items of historic interest involving this ship: -

1907 initially used as a submarine depot ship - RN manned

9 June 1917 chartered by the Admiralty for service as a Stores & distiling ship.

16 November 1917 Lieutenant Charles W Bray RNR discharged dead

19 December 1917 purchased by the Admiralty.

6 August 1918 Officers Steward Ernest W Hoskin discharged dead

14 May 1920 sold and renamed Santi.

18 November 1922 wrecked Plana Island, off Cape Santa Pola

September 1949 Broken up at Troon