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PLOVER (1936)

Service dates: 1936-1961

Official number: 164627

Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; GREAT YARMOUTH SHIPPING COMPANY

Ship type:


General Cargo Ship.


Career

06.04.1936
Launched.
13.05.1936
Completed as Plover for the General Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
1960
Sold to the Great Yarmouth Shipping Company without a change of name, although this was a P&O subsidiary company as well and remained in Group service.
07.11.1961
Sank following a collision with Hollands Duin in new Waterway near Pernis on a voyage from Yarmouth to Rotterdam with general cargo.
10.11.1961
Ship was raised.
12.11.1961
Sold to NV Holland to be broken up at Hendrik Ido Ambacht.


Ship technical details (PDF)