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CORCHESTER (1927)
Service dates: 1927-1934
Shipping lines: CORY COLLIERS
Ship type:
Collier.
Career
- 04.03.1927
- Launched.
- 04.1927
- Completed as Corchester for The Cory Colliers Ltd.
- 07.1934
- Cory Colliers Ltd no long a P&O subsidiary company.
- War Service
- Taken up for the transport of petrol in cans in the Mediterranean. She narrowly missed being bombed at Naples.
- 12.1945
- Returned to service with Wm Cory & Son Ltd.
- 19.02.1956
- Sank 3km (2 miles) went of Haisboro’ light vessel, off Cromer, after being in a collision with the Ellerman steamer City of Sydney while on a passage from London to Hartlepools.