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KILWORTH (1911)
Service dates: 1948-1950
Official number: 128813
Shipping lines: GRAND UNION (SHIPPING)
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 25.07.1911
- Launched.
- 30.08.1911
- Completed as Eskwood for the Meteor Steamship Co Ltd (R A Constantine and T H Donking, managers).
- 1918
- Sold to E Johnson & Co Ltd, Goole.
- 1926
- Sold to S & R Steamships Ltd (Stone & Rolfe Ltd, managers), Llanelli.
- 1937
- Acquired by the Mersey Ports Stevedoring Co Ltd, Liverpool.
- 1944
- Sold to Grand Union (Shipping) Ltd, London.
- 1946
- Renamed Kilworth without a change in ownership.
- 10.09.1948
- The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company acquired an interest in Grand Union (Shipping) Ltd.
- 1950
- Sold to Fenchurch Shipping Co Ltd (George A Tom & Co Ltd, managers).
- 1951
- Renamed Fenchurch. Sold to Holderness Steamship Co Ltd, Hull, and renamed Holdernoll.
- 20.01.1956
- Arrived at Gateshead to be broken up by J J King & Co Ltd.