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CORNESS (1909)
Service dates: 1919-1934
Official number: 128003
Shipping lines: R&J H REA LTD.; WILLIAM CORY & SONS
Ship type:
Collier.
Career
- 30.09.1909
- Launched.
- 10.1909
- Completed as Westgarth for Rea Shipping Co Ltd (R & J H Rea, managers).
- War Service
- Requisitioned for use as a naval collier under the Blue Ensign.
- 1920
- Transferred to Wm Cory & Sons Ltd and renamed Corness.
- 03.02.1926
- Involved in a collision in the Thames estuary in which two Swedish steamers were sunk.
- 1935
- Sold to G Orav & others, Tallinn, Estonia, and renamed Parnu.
- 1940
- Taken over by Ministry of War Transport and placed under the management of Connell & Grace Ltd, London.
- 16.04.1941
- In a collision about 18km (11 miles) off Cape Wrath while bound from Barry to London.
- 17.04.1941
- Foundered off Lewis while in tow.