RFA Race Fisher

RFA Race Fisher

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Official Number:                      93430                                                                         

Class:                                       Munitions Carrier / Collier / Fleet Messenger

Pennant No:                             Y 2.36 / Y 3.586 / Y 4.33

Laid down:
Builder:                                     McIlwaine & McColl Ltd., Belfast

Launched:                               3 May 1892
Into Service:                            11 January 1915 - hired as an Ammunition carrier for the RFA
Out of service:                         30 January 1919 
Fate:                                          Wrecked at Stratoni, Greece

Items of historic interest involving this ship: -

Background Data:  One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty in WW1 to supplement the ships of the RFA

30 April 1892 Launched by McIlwaine & McColl Ltd, Belfast as Yard Nr 49 named RACE FISHER for James Fisher & Sons, Barrow

June 1892 completed

3 October 1901 sailed Cardiff to Caen

11 January 1915 requisitioned by the Admiralty for use as a Munitions Carrier - name unchanged

29 July 1915 became a collier then a Fleet Messenger

30 July 1915 Lieutenant Thomas A Lobb RNR appointed in command

12 October 1915 Engineer Lieutenant James Ferguson RNR discharged dead - he was buried at sea and he is remembered on the Hollybrook Memorial at Southampton.

26 April 1916 Assistant Engineer Frederick Carlisle MMR discharged dead. He is buried in Liverpool (Toxteth Park) Cemetery in grave I N C 89.

17 July 1916 Seaman Bertram Howey pleaded Guilty to (a) deserting the ship and to (b) fraudulent conversion to his own use and benefit of the sum of ten pounds, one shilling and eight pence being part of fourteen pounds, seventeen shillings and six pence with which he had been entrusted in order that he might retain the same in safe custody, and put the same in purchasing food for his mess for the month. He was adjudged to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for the term of 12 calendar months and at the expiration of the said term to be dismissed from His Majesty's Service

4 September 1917 Bosun Michael Reilly MMR discharged dead. He is buried in Khartoum War Cemetery grave 2 B 18

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12 September 1917 Engineer Sub-Lieutenant Robert M Watson RNR appointed as Chief Engineer Officer

10 November 1917 Lieutenant David S Brown RNR appointed in command

30 January 1919 wrecked at Stratoni Bay, Greece