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CORBURN (1896)

Service dates: 1917-1921

Official number: 105880

Shipping lines: CORY COLLIERS

Ship type:


Collier.


Career

27.08.1896
Launched.
09.1896
Delivered as Harborne for Cory Colliers Ltd.
1914/1919
Did her war service by carrying Royal Engineers’ stores for the Army between the Thames and France.
01.02.1917
Takeover of Cory Colliers by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
1920
Renamed Corburn.
1921
Sold to Cia. Mar. Elanchove.
1942
Sold to Carbones de Teneriffe.
1943
Returned to the Cia. Anon. Navieros del Norte.
1948
Sold to Maria de la Consolacion Menendez Ponte (J Ponte Naya) Spain, but returned later that year to the Cia. Anon. Navieros del Norte.
1952
Sold to Santiago Rivero Moran of Spain and renamed Somio.


Ship technical details (PDF)