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.