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CORNCRAKE (1946)

Service dates: 1946-1967

Official number: 180856

Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:


General Cargo Ship.


Career

20.12.1945
Launched.
27.04.1946
Completed as Corncrake for the General Steam Navigation Company.
17.05.1967
Sold to H W C Gillett Ltd, St John’s, Newfoundland, and renamed Twillingate.
1981
Sold to G V N Corporation, Panama, without a change of name.
1999
Deleted from the Register.


Ship technical details (PDF)