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CORFELL (1908)

Service dates: 1919-1933

Official number: 127951

Shipping lines: WILLIAM CORY & SONS; R&J H REA LTD.

Ship type:


Collier.


Career

26.10.1908
Launched.
12.1908
Completed as Queensgarth for Rea Shipping Co Ltd (R & J H Rea, managers).
1918
Transferred to Wm Cory & Sons Ltd.
1920
Renamed Corfell.
1933
Sold to G Sigalas & Sons, Greece, and renamed Ais Giorgis.
1940
Taken over by the Ministry of War Transport.
1945
Returned to her owners.
1953
Sold for £15,000 to Italian shipbreakers and arrived at Savona for demolition.


Ship technical details (PDF)