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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.