Ruysdael (II) 1912 np

Ruysdael 1912

3478 tons

104.5 LPP x 14.9m

1xTriple expansion engine

Wm Gray & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool

Yard No 800

At the outbreak of war she was laid up in the neutral Finnish port of Kristinestad, in the Gulf of Bothnia, until November 1916. Under the command of Capt. R. Hurford and in the company of some other British ships, she then managed to slip through the shelter of Swedish territorial waters out of the Baltic into the Kattegat, through the Skagerrak, to escape home across the North Sea.

On her arrival in England she was then sold.

1916 sold to A.D. Axarlis, London but not renamed

1918 sold to Watkin J. Williams, Cardiff

1918 7th Sep while en-route from Barry to Taranto with a cargo of coal, she was torpedoed and sunk N.W. of Finisterre by the German submarine U-105 at 46.53N 10.07W (228 miles west of the Ushant), becoming one of the last casualties of the war.

12 casualties including the master

The U-105 surrendered at the end of the War and became the French submarine Jean Autric.