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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.