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HARLINGTON (1895)
Service dates: 1896-1914
Official number: 104864
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 09.04.1895
- Launched.
- 05.1895
- Delivered as Harlington for J & C Harrison, London. Named after a district of west London.
- 17.01.1896
- Purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for £14,272.
- 23.01.1896
- Entered Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company service.
- 18.09.1901
- Rescued 12 survivors from the pioneer turbine destroyer HMS Cobra which had broken her back and foundered in the North Sea on the previous day, while on her maiden voyage. The remainder of the crew of 79 were lost.
- 1906
- Began making feeder calls at Hamburg once a fortnight.
- 1912
- During the Dock Strike took cargo from London to Rotterdam for trans-shipment to other companies’ services.
- 02.12.1914
- Wrecked on Middle Sunk Sand in the Thames Estuary, when avoiding a minesweeper while on passage from the Tees to London with iron and general cargo. All hands were saved, with great difficulty, by the Clacton lifeboat.