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TREVELYAN (1919)
Service dates: 1919-1923
Official number: 142569
Shipping lines: HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 01.05.1919
- Launched.
- 07.1919
- Completed as War Quince for the Shipping Controller.
- 07.1919
- Purchased by The Hain Steamship Company Ltd and renamed Trevelyan.
- 22.03.1923
- Sold for £24,000 to Kelvin Shipping Company Ltd, Glasgow (H Hogarth & Sons, managers) and renamed Baron Herries.
- 1934
- Sold to Abbey Line Ltd, Cardiff, (Frederick Jones & Sons, managers) and renamed Neath Abbey.
- 1939
- Sold to Constants (South Wales) Ltd, Cardiff (M Constant, manager) and renamed Lyminge.
- 1946
- Sold to Wheelock, Marden & Co Ltd, London.
- 1947
- Sold to San Peh Steam Navigation Company Ltd, registered under Hoong On Steam Navigation Company Ltd, China, and renamed Tung Shan.
- 15.08.1949
- Bombed and sunk by Chinese Nationalist aircraft in the Yangtze River 96km (60 miles) from Shanghai whilst on a voyage from Shanghai to Pukow in ballast.