Collections
Search our collections for images, objects and ship records. Get started with the search box or browse what you can see. You can also find out about our collections and how to access them.
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.