RFA Red Dragon

RFA Red Dragon

Previous name:                                          Y Ddraig Goch
Subsequent name:     

Official Number:                                         54754                                                                      

Class:                                                           Oil Fuelling Hulk

Pennant No:                                                X81  

Laid down:
Builder:                                                         Napier & Miller, Old Kilpatrick, River Clyde
Launched:                                                   2 July 1912
Into Service:                                                 April 1918

Out of service:                                             1946
Fate:                                                              Scrapped

Items of historic interest involving this ship: -

2 July 1912 Launched by Napier & Miller Ltd, Old Kilpatrick as Yard Nr 186 named Y. DDRAIG GOCH, a large four masted auxiliary 1,400 ton yacht, for Mr Godfrey Williams of Aberpergwm - a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron

April 1918 entered Admiralty service

17 August 1918 Engineer Sub-Lieutenant Frederick L Angus RNR appointed as officer in charge

11 December 1918 and 12 December 1918 at Devonport in No 3 Dock RFA Palmol alongside pumping over her entire cargo of FFO

1919 used as an oil hulk at Devonport and Dartmouth

1946 sold out of service and was scrapped

Notes

It was reported in the Times newspaper of 9 April 1913 that this vessel had an auxiliary engine which ran on gas produced on board from anthracite coal. The vessel had a six cylinder motor of 160 b.h.p. and drived a Bevis feathering propeller through a clutch. A smaller four cyclinder gas-engine drived dynamo which provided electrical power for lighting the ship and working the windlass and other deck machinery. The ship could carry sufficient anthacite to take her round the world under power alone.