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COVE (1912)

Service dates: 1917-1927

Official number: 135160

Shipping lines: CORY COLLIERS

Ship type:


Collier.


Career

24.10.1912
Launched.
11.1912
Completed as Cove.
1914/1918
During the war she served as a mine carrier, store carrier and railway material carrier for the British Expeditionary Force.
01.02.1917
Takeover of Cory Colliers Ltd by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
1920
Renamed Corcove.
1927
Sold to the Westwick Steam Ship Co Ltd (James Westoll Ltd, managers) and renamed Westcove.
05.1940
Requisitioned by the Admiralty for use as a blockship.
03.06.1940
Scuttled at Dunkirk to block the channel.


Ship technical details (PDF)