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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.