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RFA Mercedes 1908-1920
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RFA Mercedes 1908-1920
Collier. Tonnage: 4487 gross, 7500 deadweight, 9930 displacement.Length: 351 ft. Beam: 50.75 ft. Depth: 28.3 ft. Draught: 23.9 ft
Machinery: 1 screw, triple expansion engine, 2350 ihp
(bunkers 753 tons coal). Service speed: 10.5 knots (12 knots trials) Complement 43. Built 1902 by Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Howden-on-Tyne,
Purchased by the Admiralty in 1908, she was initially used for an unsuccessful series of CAS trials but later used for transporting coal between UK naval bases.
She was sold in July 1920 and renamed Juan Olavarriaga. Subsequently renamed Iberia (1923), Virgen de Bergona (1925), Euskera (1930), and Elanchove (1935) by a series of Spanish owners, she foundered in a storm on 7 October 1936.
Machinery: 1 screw, triple expansion engine, 2350 ihp
(bunkers 753 tons coal). Service speed: 10.5 knots (12 knots trials) Complement 43. Built 1902 by Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Howden-on-Tyne,
Purchased by the Admiralty in 1908, she was initially used for an unsuccessful series of CAS trials but later used for transporting coal between UK naval bases.
She was sold in July 1920 and renamed Juan Olavarriaga. Subsequently renamed Iberia (1923), Virgen de Bergona (1925), Euskera (1930), and Elanchove (1935) by a series of Spanish owners, she foundered in a storm on 7 October 1936.