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HOCKWOLD (1911)

Service dates: 1917

Official number: 129179

Shipping lines: CORY COLLIERS

Ship type:


Collier.


Career

31.01.1911
Launched.
03.1911
Completed as Hockwold for William Cory & Sons Ltd (Cory Colliers, managers).
1915
Taken up to serve as Naval collier No.661.
01.02.1917
Takeover of Cory Colliers Ltd by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
08.09.1917
Sunk in a collision off the Lizard with the collier Intent while on passage from Penarth to Dover.


Ship technical details (PDF)