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TREWYN (1920)

Service dates: 1920-1937

Official number: 142577

Shipping lines: HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

08.12.1919
Launched as War Gannet for the Shipping Controller.
02.1920
Purchased and completed as Trewyn for The Hain Steamship Company Ltd.
1937
Sold for £61,800 to Rickmers Rhederei A G, Germany, and renamed Moni Rickmers.
10.05.1940
Seized at Sabang by Dutch authorities and renamed Salando. She was operated by the Dutch Government (N V Nederlandsch-Indische Maats voor Zeevaart VI).
1943
Management transferred to Rotterdamsche Lloyd.
1948
Management transferred to A Veder & Co.
1949
Sold to Avni Nuri Meserretcioglu, Turkey, and renamed Meserret.
1958
Sold to A Veder, Holland.
1959
Sold to Hakki Marmara, Turkey, and renamed Yeni Meserret.
1960
Sold to Deniz Nakliyat ve Ticaret Ltd Sirketi, Turkey.
01.09.1962
Driven ashore at Green Island, Hong Kong during typhoon ‘Wanda’.
06.09.1962
Refloated and beached at Gin Drinker’s Bay where she was broken up by Hong Kong Chiap Hua Manufactory Co (1947) Ltd.
24.09.1962
Demolition commenced.


Ship technical details (PDF)