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LAVEROCK (1909)
Service dates: 1920-1938
Official number: 129042
Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 17.08.1909
- Launched.
- 04.10.1909
- Completed as Laverock for the General Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 31.10.1920
- Takeover of the General Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 01.07.1938
- Sold to Verano Steamship Company, Gibraltar, and renamed Bellerock.
- 15.07.1940
- Mined in Bristol Channel whilst on a voyage from Barry to Corunna with the loss of 17 lives.