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NORWICH TRADER (1909)
Service dates: 1931-1942
Official number: 125752
Shipping lines: GREAT YARMOUTH SHIPPING COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 12.10.1908
- Launched.
- 02.01.1909
- Registered to Joseph H Beckwith and trading as Beckwith & Co, Colchester, as Esperanto.
- 05.03.1915
- Sold to Griffith Davies, William O Roberts and Thomas L Roberts, Liverpool.
- 05.04.1915
- Owners became the Esperanto Steamship Co Ltd, Liverpool (Robert Owen & Co, managers).
- 16.04.1918
- In a collision with the steamer Collin which sank off Maughold Head, Ramsey, Isle of Man.
- 02.10.1919
- Sold to William J Kelly, Belfast.
- 29.12.1923
- Sold to James Downey and Patrick Neville, Dublin.
- 04.03.1925
- Sold to Frederick W Taylor, Sunderland.
- 09.04.1925
- Renamed Elemore.
- 09.03.1927
- Sold to T Small & Co (Great Yarmouth) Ltd.
- 14.04.1927
- Renamed Norwich Trader.
- 17.12.1931
- Acquired by the Great Yarmouth Shipping Co Ltd, Great Yarmouth.
- 07.01.1942
- Mined and sunk in position 51°55’N-01°32’E whilst on a voyage from London to Yarmouth with general cargo. Her crew of six and one DEMS gunner were lost.
- 1943
- Wreck dispersed.