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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)