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TRESILLIAN (1899)

Service dates: 1917-1924

Official number: 104677

Shipping lines: HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

27.07.1899
Launched.
08.1899
Completed as Tresillian for Tresillian Steamship Company Ltd (Edward Hain & Son, managers).
1901
Transferred to The Hain Steamship Company Ltd.
07.11.1917
Takeover of The Hain Steamship Company Ltd by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
09.04.1924
Sold to Monument Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London, and renamed Yorkhill.
1926
Sold to Naigai Kisen KK, Japan and renamed Taisei Maru.
05.06.1944
Sunk in a collision off Komoi Cape, Hokkaido, Japan.


Ship technical details (PDF)