RFA Polmont

RFA Polmont

RFA Polmont

Previous name:                       Karpat
Subsequent name:                 Polish Monarch, Izabran, Dunav, Ljubljana

Official Number:                      136772                                                        

Class:                                       Water Carrier / Collier

Pennant No:                            Y3.1102        

Laid down:                              
Builder:                                     W. Dobson & Co, Newcastle
Launched:                               29 August 1912
Into Service:                             1915
Out of service:                         1921
Fate:                                          Sold out of service

Items of historic interest involving this ship: -

Background Data:

Some official lists, marked as  “Lists of RFA’s” show vessels which spent some time as RFA’s during the First World War. These records are extremely sketchy and some of these vessels were “Yard Craft”, partially or wholly Dockyard manned, partly by RNR or Reserve Fleet personnel. Some of the Depot Ships staffed by skilled civilian Dockyard workers were for a time White Ensign. The Director of Stores was understood to be concerned with their manning and operationally they remained under Admiralty control

29 August 1912 Launched by  W. Dobson & Co, Newcastle as Yard Nr 180 named KARPAT for Hungarian Levant Steamship Co Ltd, Budapest

October 1912 completed

3 May 1914 sailed Rangoon for Fiume

August 1914 seized at South Shields on the outbreak of WW1

1915 Requisitioned by the Admiralty and renamed POLMONT under management of Everett & Newbiggin, Newcastle

1 July 1915 Lieutenant Herbert W Reavley RNR appointed in Command and Engineer Thomas A Bertram RNR appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

25 January 1916 Stoker W D Griffiths discharged dead. He is buried in Swansea (Cwmgelly) Cemetery in grave D 19 965

13 March 1916 served as a water carrier

30 April 1916 became a collier. 

1916 her management was moved to another company and the ship was renamed Polish Monarch

1921 purchased by Soc di Nav Marittima ‘Levant’, Fiume

1922 purchased by Navigazione Libera Giovanni Raccich & Ci, Dubrovnik and renamed IZABRAN

1925 owners restyled as Atlantska Plovidba Ivo Racic A.D, Dubrovnik

1929 owners became Jugoslavenski Lloyd A.D, Dubrovnik name unchanged

12 September 1932 ran aground at Arroyseco

1936 purchased by Brodarsko Akcionarsko Drustvo ‘Oceania’, Split and renamed DUNAV

1941 placed under management of Robert Ropner & Co Ltd, London name unchanged

1945 returned to her owners

1946 taken over by State Enterprise Jugoslavenska Linijska Plovidba, Rijeka (Yugoslav Line) and renamed LJUBLJANA

1956 owners became Splosna Plovidba, Piran name unchanged

19 September 1963 arrived Split for demolition by Brodospas

Notes:

1. The above photo is of the Karpat before she became an RFA and was named Polmont. The Karpat was seized in August 1914 at South Shields and was allocated to the Admiralty in 1915 when she became an RFA.