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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)