A general cargo ship built in 1925 William Gray & Co West Hartlepool and owned by John Cory & Sons Ltd,
On the 19th October 1940 when on route from New York for Greenock and Leith in Convoy HX-79 and carrying a cargo of steel billets, scrap iron and aircraft when she was torpedoed by German submarine U-46 and sunk about 90 miles Sw of Rockall. 29 crew members and 1 gunner lost from a total crew of 36.
Built in 1925 by Northumberland Shipbuilding on the Tyne.
Seen here at the dockside with a cargo of timber
Owned by W.H. Seager & Co Ltd group
Sold on in 1946 and broken up in 1952
Owned by Morel Bros Shipping
Built in 1924 by Northumberland Shipbuilding on the Tyne.
Sunk by U-Boats in 1942 on voyage from Immingham to Canada in ballast with 2 casualties of the 4 crew onboard. The Master, Herbert V B Morden, was made a prisoner of War
Owned by William Reardon Smith & Sons
Built in 1930 by William Gray & Co, West Hartlepool
Mined in 1941 off Harwich on passage Jacksonville and Halifax for London with the loss of 9 crew.
