HMS Redbreast (1915)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	SS Redbreast
Operator:	G. & J. Burns Ltd, Glasgow[1]
Builder:	A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse[2][1]
Yard number:	285[1]
Launched:	18 April 1908[2]
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Redbreast
Acquired:	17 July 1915[2]
Out of service:	15 July 1917[2]
Fate:	Sunk 15 July 1917
General characteristics
Tonnage:	1313 grt[1]
Length:	267 feet[1]
Beam:	33.6 feet[1]
Propulsion:	Single screw 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine, manufactured by builder[1]

HMS Redbreast^[3] was a passenger/cargo ship requisitioned by the British Government during World War I, and used as a messager ship and antisubmarine Q-ship. She was torpedoed and sunk by the Imperial German Navy submarine UC-38 in the Aegean Sea on 15 July 1917 while on passage from Skyros to the Doro Channel.^[2][1] Forty-two of her crew were killed.^[2]

References

1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "SS Redbreast". Clydesite. Retrieved 7 June 2015. 
2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Requisitioned Auxiliary - Redbreast". Historical RFA. Retrieved 6 June 2015. 
3. ↑ "Archive listing of Report on Loss of HMS Redbreast July 19-Oct 25 1917". UK National Archives.