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CORSURF (1896)
Service dates: 1917-1921
Official number: 105842
Shipping lines: CORY COLLIERS
Ship type:
Collier.
Career
- 17.03.1896
- Launched.
- 06.1896
- Delivered as Surf for Lambert Bros Ltd.
- 1896
- Transferred to Wm Cory & Son Ltd.
- 1917
- Salved the sailing vessel Susan Vittery.
- 01.02.1917
- Takeover of Cory Colliers Ltd by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1918
- Requisitioned as fleet collier coaster under the Home Trade branch and also made one trip from France as a battle salvage carrier.
- 1920
- Renamed Corsurf.
- 1921
- Sold to C Feuerloh GmbH of Stettin and renamed Oderstrom.
- 05.1945
- Taken as a prize at Lubeck.
- 1946
- Loaded at Kiel with munitions and scuttled in the Skagerrak.