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TREGARTHEN (1936)
Service dates: 1936-1941
Official number: 164706
Shipping lines: HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 30.07.1936
- Launched.
- 09.09.1936
- Ran trials.
- 09.1936
- Completed as Tregarthen for The Hain Steamship Company Ltd.
- 06.06.1941
- Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U48, west of Cape Race (46°17’N-36°20’W). She was on a voyage from Cardiff to Kingston, Jamaica carrying 7,800 tons of coal. Her crew of 45 were lost.