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HOBSONS BAY (1922)
Service dates: 1933-1951
Official number: 135270
Shipping lines: ABERDEEN & COMMONWEALTH LINE
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 04.09.1913
- Launched.
- 10.1913
- Delivered as Hitchin for Cory Colliers Ltd.
- 08.1914/02.1919
- Served as a Naval collier.
- 01.02.1917
- Takeover of Cory Colliers Ltd by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1920
- Renamed Corbank.
- 1934
- P&O interest in Wm Cory & Son sold.
- 1939
- Sold to the Tallinna Laevauhisus A/S (Tallinn Shipping Co Ltd, managers), Tallinn, Estonia and renamed Vilk.
- 1940
- Taken over by the Ministry of War Transport and managed by the Hudson Steamship Co Ltd.
- 1950
- Sold to the Cia Mar La Villa SA of Panama and renamed La Villa.
- 1957
- Sold to the Belgian shipbreakers Van den Bossche & Co.
- 24.10.1957
- Arrived at Boom for demolition.