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CORNCRAKE (1910)
Service dates: 1920-1945
Official number: 129113
Shipping lines: MOSS HUTCHISON LINE LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 12.05.1910
- Launched.
- 13.07.1910
- Completed as Corncrake for the General Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 31.10.1920
- Takeover of the General Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 08.07.1937
- Transferred to Moss Hutchison Line Ltd (a P&O subsidiary company) and renamed Chloris.
- 01.09.1945
- Suffered a fire at Trieste and eventually sunk. No longer in company service.
- 04.06.1946
- Raised by the Italians.
- 1948
- Sold to SARGA, Genoa, and renamed Sarga.
- 1953
- Sold to Trasporti Maritimi Industria Armatoriale, Genoa, and renamed Gianandrea.
- 03.1955
- Broken up at Savona.