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CORCREST (1918)
Service dates: 1919-1934
Official number: 140715
Shipping lines: CORY COLLIERS
Ship type:
Collier.
Career
- 1918
- Completed as Hopecrest for Stott, Mann & Co Ltd, Newcastle.
- 1918
- Taken over on completion by the Government for service as a collier.
- 1919
- Purchased by Wm Cory & Son Ltd, and renamed Corcrest.
- 1934
- P&O interest in Wm Cory & Son Ltd sold.
- 1941
- Damaged by enemy air attack while bound from London to Blyth. Later taken up for the transport of petrol in cans in the Mediterranean.
- 02.1946
- Returned to Wm Cory & Son Ltd.
- 02.1948
- Extensively damaged in collision with the motor vessel Freetown in the Thames while bound from the Tyne to London.
- 21.06.1949
- Stranded on the sunken wreck of the steamer Fort Massac off Harwich and became a total loss.