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FRODINGHAM (1914)
Service dates: 1915-1923
Official number: 136747
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 10.02.1914
- Launched as Gyula for Societe Francaise d’Armement et de Transport, France.
- 21.01.1915
- Purchased for £18,000 by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and renamed Frodingham after a town in Lincolnshire just south of Scunthorpe.
- 29.07.1916
- Bombed by German aircraft off Bridlington but not damaged.
- 17.05.1923
- Sold for £16,750 to Neville Shipping Co Ltd (F H Green & Co, managers), Cardiff, and renamed Neville.
- 01.04.1927
- Foundered off the Runnelstone Buoy, 6.5km (4 miles) south-east by south from Tolpeda, Cornwall, when her cargo of coal shifted. She was on a voyage from Barry to Rouen. Her crew were picked up by Teelin Head and landed at Plymouth.