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CORNWALL (1920)

Service dates: 1920-1949

Official number: 145038

Shipping lines: FEDERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:


Refrigerated Cargo Liner.


Career

03.04.1920
Launched.
27.10.1920
Delivered as Cornwall to the Federal Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
1928
Boilers converted to oil fuel.
18.05.1929
Struck a quay wall at Avonmouth.
03.03.1930
Grounded at Curacao, bound Auckland to London.
15.03.1930
Refloated and given temporary repairs.
06.1931/07.1934
Served as a cadet ship.
25.09.1932
Grounded on the north side of the channel just past the North Arm, Port Adelaide, when passing a moored dredge and the inward-bound passenger steamer Karepo did not leave enough room. She was refloated undamaged the next day.
04.05.1940/26.04.1946
Requisitioned for the Liner Division.
31.08.1940
Damaged by bombs south of Crete (35°15’N-23°15’E) bound Rockhampton to the UK with general cargo. She was hit three times. A radio officer was killed. Her magazine blew up and her steering was disabled. Inside 15 minutes she was steering by her engines and the fire was under control within the house.
26.04.1942
Collided with the steamer Richard Henry Lee.
12.1948
Laid up at Avonmouth.
01.03.1949
Sold to British Iron & Steel Corporation for £26,000 for breaking up.
15.03.1949
Arrived at Briton Ferry where demolition was carried out by T W Ward Ltd.


Ship technical details (PDF)