 On the evening of 8 September 1917 she was in the North Sea steaming from Granton to London with a cargo of coal as part of a convoy.A few miles northwest of North Cheek of Robin Hood's Bay the German submarine torpedoed her, killing the first mate and a gunner and sinking her.One of the convoy's armed trawler escorts rescued her remaining crew and transferred them to a motor launch that landed them at Whitby.