as ss Corbeach
Official Number: 135490
Laid down:
Builder: Sir Raylton, Dixon & Co Ltd., Middlesborough
Pennant No: Y 3.10 / Y 2.32
Launched: 8 July 1913
Into Service: 31 July 1914
Out of service: 27 December 1918
Fate: Wrecked 15 May 1937
Items of historic interest involving this ship: -
Background Data: One of an additional group of ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the ships of the RFA
Career Data:
8 July 1913 launched by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co Ltd., Middlesborough as Yard Nr: 583 named Valegarth for Rea Shipping Co Ltd., (R & J H Rea, Managers) Liverpool
August 1913 completed
11 January 1914 arrived at Burntisland from Southampton in ballast
24 February 1914 arrived at Penarth Dock in ballast
20 April 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on Flamborough Head sailing north
3 June 1914 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west
4 June 1914 arrived at Penarth Dock in ballast from Southampton
31 July 1914 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a collier - name unchanged - until 27 December 1914
1 December 1914 at Cromarty alongside HMS LEVIATHAN supplying 630 tons of bunker coal
2 December 1914 cast off from HMS LEVIATHAN
HMS LEVIATHAN
28 December 1914 re-deployed as an ammunition carrier - name unchanged - until 27 December 1918
24 July 1915 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard sailing west
13 March 1919 arrived at Blyth from the River Tyne
30 June 1919 at Sunderland cleared to sail with a cargo of 2,200 tons of coal for London
1920 transferred to Wm. Cory & Son Ltd., London and renamed Corbeach
3 October 1927 at sea Fireman Joshua Robertson Symm discharged dead - fell overboard and presumed drowned
1935 purchased by Angelus Shipping Co Ltd., London and renamed Beatsea
15 May 1937 wrecked in the Bay of Biscay 1 mile NW of Les Pierres Moires Lighthouse, Ile Molena while on passage from Alicante, Spain to Gdynia with a cargo of oranges