Ire fortiter quo nemo ante iit.

 
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Anthony Attard Able Seaman RFA Petrella died 4th of february 1941
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Previous name: 
Subsequent name:                                                                           

Class:                                     

Pennant No:                           X3     

Laid down:                             
Builder:                                    Ropner & Son Ltd., Stockton-on-Tees
Launched:                              29 June 1915
Into Service:                          
Out of service:                        February 1922
Fate:                                         Sunk 23 November 1928

 

Items of historic interest involving this ship: -

 

1916/1917 Converted to a tanker and renamed OYSTER

8 October 1918 at Rosyth alongside HMS Talbot refuelling her with 40 tons of FFO

1919 deployed to North Russia

February 1922 sold to F. H. Connor, London

December 1922 WANDER, F. T. Everard & Sons and re-engined with a 2 cyl. diesel by Plenty & Son Ltd., Newbury

23 November 1928 sank in the North Sea on passage Great Yarmouth for Hull with molasses.

 

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