Official Number:                       119224 

Laid down:

Builder:                                   Furness Withy & Co. Ltd., Middleton Yard, West Hartlepool

Pennant No:                            Y 3.2174

Launched:                               9 March 1906

Into Service:                            9 April 1918

Out of service:                         1918

Fate:                                      January 1932 broken up

 

Items of historic interest involving this ship: -

 

Background Data:  One of a group of additional ships requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1 to augment the RFA

Career Data:

 

9 March 1906 launched by Furness Withy & Co. Ltd., Middleton Yard, West Hartlepool as Yard No: 285 named Malvern Range for Neptune Steam Navigation Co Ltd (F W Bolam, Manager) Newcastle

May 1906 completed

1910 managers became Furness, Withy & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool - name unchanged

1914 purchased by West Russian Steamship Co Ltd., St Petersburg and renamed Zimorodok

4 August 1915 while on passage from Cardiff to Archangel stopped and boarded by HMS HILDEBRAND - allowed to proceed

23 December 1917 hired by the Commercial Branch as a transport to carry timber from the Gulf of Mexico to France - name unchanged - to the 9 April 1918

10 April 1918 requisitioned for Admiralty service from Russia as a collier - name unchanged - under the Management of Ellerman's Wilson Line and later served as a transport carrying wheat from the Gulf of Mexico

1920 management ceased

15 August 1928 purchased by Constants (South Wales) Ltd., (Martin Constant, Manager) London - name unchanged

26 September 1928 purchased by Evangelos N Vassilikos, Syra and renamed Ermoupolis

29 September 1931 stranded at Lobeira, Argentina when on passage from Rosario to Sharpness with a cargo of grain

2 November 1931 was refloated and taken to Ferrol where she was declared a compromised total loss

January 1932 broken up by D Vincente Cenelmor at Ferrol