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CORGLEN (1929)
Service dates: 1929-1934
Official number: 161301
Shipping lines: CORY COLLIERS
Ship type:
Collier.
Career
- 20.08.1929
- Launched.
- 08.1929
- Completed as Corglen for The Cory Colliers Ltd.
- 07.1934
- Cory Colliers Ltd no long a subsidiary of The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 29.04.1941
- Attacked by enemy aircraft off the Tyne, a direct hit doing considerable damage.
- 05.1944/09.1944
- Chartered by the Admiralty for service as a store carrier for the Normandy invasion.
- 1955
- Sold for £50,000 to St Michaels Corporation, Liberia, and renamed Michael A.
- 1961
- Renamed Capetan Andreas.
- 15.03.1966
- Broken up at El Ferrol.