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SIR FRANCIS (1910)
Service dates: 1917
Official number: 129102
Shipping lines: CORY COLLIERS
Ship type:
Collier.
Career
- 25.05.1910
- Launched.
- 07.1910
- Completed as Sir Francis for Cory Colliers Ltd.
- 1914/02.1917
- Served as a Naval collier.
- 01.02.1917
- Takeover of Cory Colliers by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 07.06.1917
- Torpedoed and sunk off Scarborough with the loss of ten lives including the Master.