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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.