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Name: CORALSTONE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 22/05/1924
Completed: 06/1924
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1245
Dimensions: 1375grt, 791nrt, 235.1 x 36.1 x 15.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (15, 25.5 & 40 x 27ins), 120nhp
Engines by: Davey, Paxman & Co Ltd, Colchester
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 147676
History:
18/06/1924 Crete Shipping Co Ltd (Stelp & Leighton Ltd, managers), London
11/12/1934 McIlwraith, McEacharn Ltd, Melbourne; registered at Sydney; renamed HETTON BANK
1961 San Raimundo Cia Naviera SA, Panama; renamed LA UNION
1Q/1962 Broken up
Comments: Engine manufactured in 1919 & removed from Crete Shipping's tug CRETEYARD in 1924
10/1961: Laid up at Hong Kong
12/1961: Broken up by Chiap Mua Manufacturing Co (1947) Ltd at Hong Kong


Above photo as HETTON BANK is copyright of Allan C Green

Above photo as HETTON BANK is copyright of Allan C Green

Liverpool Journal of Commerce, Thursday, 26/06/1924