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PICARDY (1920)

Service dates: 1923-1953

Official number: 144421

Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; GREAT YARMOUTH SHIPPING COMPANY

Ship type:


General Cargo Ship.


Career

01.03.1920
Completed for R J Park Ltd, London, as Picardy.
17.05.1923
Acquired by the General Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
31.12.1931
Transferred to the Great Yarmouth Shipping Company Ltd, Yarmouth.
1953
Sold to Barlow & Co, Dundee, and renamed Edith.
1966
Broken up at St Davids on Forth to be broken up by James A White & Co Ltd.


Ship technical details (PDF)