October, rebuilt to a dummy battleship, renamed HMS Centurion
1916
Renamed Saxol
1916
Renamed Aspenleaf for Lane & MacAndrew
1917
Taken over by Shipping Controller
1919
Taken over by Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co.
1921
Renamed Prygona
1925
Scrapped at Copenhagen
The information listed above is not the complete record of the ship. The information was collected from a multitude of sources, and new information will be added as it emerges
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