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Previous name:
Subsequent name: Hemsley II Grammos Ardenza Pannesi
Official Number: 142314
Class: SECOND 1000 t CREOSOL CLASS Harbour Oiler
Pennant No: X29
Laid down:
Builder: McMillan, Dumbarton
Launched: 30 November 1917
Into Service: March 1918
Out of service: 1948 Sold commercially
Fate: Broken up
Items of historic interest involving this ship: -
Background Data: On the outbreak of WW1, the Admiralty embarked on a further programme of tanker construction for the newly-formed RFA Service. Eventually there were 18 ships in this Class, 12 of which were named after trees with the OL suffix, while the remainder had names connected with the oil industry also with the OL suffix. 4 of the Class were diesel engined and were sold after the Armistice but the rest, being triple expansion steamers, had long and successful lives
4 November 1917 Mr William Cornell RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer. He was demobilised on 22 April 1919
30 November 1917 Launched by A. Macmillan & Sons Ltd, Dumbarton as Yard Nr 470 named HICKOROL.
18 January 1918 Lieutenant Frank J Delamotte RNR appointed in command
25 February 1918 registered in Admiralty ownership
17 April 1919 Mr W L Rathbone RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer. He previously had served in RFA Barkol. He was demobilised on 30 August 1919.
On or after 1 July 1919 Leading Stoker Benjamin WIlliams MMR 736894 logged as deserting (no exact date shown for his desertion). He had signed on on 12 April 1919
1919 involved as oiler with British and US mine sweepers removing the 'Northern Barrage' - the series of mine fields laid across the northern North Sea to restrict the passage of German U-Boats assisted by RFA‘s CRENELLA and PETRONE
11 August 1919 Engineer Lieutenant Peter Low RNR appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
11 November 1919 Ordinary Seaman Cyril Black MMR 938468 logged as deserting from the ship. He had signed on the ship on 21 February 1918. He surrendered on 27 December 1919 and was admitted to Whipps Cross Hospital, Leyton, London E10 on 29 December 1919
18 November 1919 Stoker J Wilson logged as deserting. He had signed on on 22 August 1919
3 December 1919 Able Seaman J Pottinger logged as deserting. He had signed on on 28 August 1919
24 December 1919 Fireman Edwin G Whiting MMR 982092 logged as deserting. He had signed on on 12 April 1919
12 February 1920 Mr Thomas Dobbie RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer. Previously served as Chief Engineer Officer of RFA Limol
9 October 1922 Captain W A Wooster RFA appointed as Master
3 November 1922 Captain R S Jarvis RFA appointed as Master
30 June 1923 Mr Edward B Morton RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
Chief Engineer Officer Edward B Morton RFA
21 December 1925 Mr Joseph S Harrison RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
6 December 1926 Mr C J Falconer RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
27 August 1927 Captain R C Neyroud RFA appointed as Master
9 August 1928 Captain Donald R McCutchan RFA appointed as Master
20 May 1929 Captain A D Davies RFA appointed as Master
5 March 1930 Mentioned in Parliament as having 'emergency work' being undertaken on her which involved considerable overtime having to be paid.
1 September 1930 Mr C F Smith RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
5 October 1930 Captain H W R Fowler RFA appointed as Master
17 March 1931 Mr W Maybray RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
21 April 1932 Captain Donald R McCutchan RFA appointed as Master
Captain Donald R McCutchan RFA
15 July 1932 Mr F E Langer RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
1932 to 1936 Chartered by Sun Oil Co., Philidelphia for trading on the Great Lakes and St Lawrence River and the Newfoundland coast in the Bay of Fundy area in the summer, being laid up at Halifax during the winter. She was escorted across the Atlantic by RFA ORANGELEAF (1) then RFA SERBOL who acted as W/T guard for her
30 May 1932 grounded on the Ironside Shoal in St Lawrence Seaway causing damage to her hull - reported in the Toronto Daily Star on 1 June 1932
5 April 1934 Captain George W Callaway RFA (Lieut-Commander RN (rtd)) appointed as Master
15 March 1935 Mr R Pittendrigh RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
1936 placed in reserve at Devonport as after carrying light oils, her tanks were in very poor condition. She subsequently had a completely new tank section built into her at Grangemouth in 1938
11 November 1939 secured alongside HMS Hood at Devonport to refuel her
1940 to 1943 Sailed under a Yard Craft agreement at Devonport
4 April 1940 secured alongside HMS Hood at Devonport to refuel her
18 April 1940 secured alongside HMS Hood at Devonport to refuel her
19 April 1940 cast off from HMS Hood
13 June 1943 slightly damaged during an air raid at Devonport
9 July 1943 at Devonport receiving FFO from HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH before the battleship entered dry dock
9 August 1943 collided with and damaged the cruiser HMS SHEFFIELD at Plymouth
February 1944 Captain Charles H Noel RFA appointed as Master and Mr A Sharp RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
Captain Charles H Noel RFA
10 January 1945 Captain J MacAngus RFA appointed as Master
24 October 1945 at Portsmouth Efficient Deck Hand Robert Leslie Russell discharged dead - self inflicted injury by shooting
28 January 1946 Mr J Cook RFA appointed as Chief Engineer Officer
August 1947 taken out of service
23 September 1947 was handed over to the MoT for disposal
1947 sold to Hemsley Bell Ltd, Southampton (H.L.R. Bell, Manager) renamed Hemsley II
July 1948 was the first tanker to load from the large ex-Mulberry pontoon which was moored in Heysham Harbour and which was connected to the old Heysham Oil Jetty by two hinged arms carrying the pipelines. This provided another berth inside the harbour
April 1950 sold to N T Papadatos, Piraeus and renamed GRAMMOS
14 April 1950 sailed Southampton for Bergen on her first voyage for her new owners
1956 sold to D'Alesio & Castaldi, Livorno and renamed ARDENZA
1967 sold to Ottavio Novella, Genoa and renamed PANNESI
1974 sold to Ciane-Arapo Cia. di Nav. e Bunkeraggi SpA (Ottavio Novella, Manager), Genoa. Name unchanged
July 1978 arrived Spezia for breaking up by DEcoMAR.
15 September 1978 breaking up began
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