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LORMONT (1927)
Service dates: 1927-1940
Official number: 149831
Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; MOSS HUTCHISON LINE LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 05.04.1927
- Launched.
- 20.05.1927
- Completed as Woodcock for the General Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 08.06.1939
- Transferred to Moss Hutchison Line (also a P&O subsidiary company) and renamed Lormont.
- 07.12.1940
- Involved in a collision with the HM trawler Cortina and sank at the mouth of the Humber River whilst serving as an Admiralty Guard Ship.