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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.