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Name: THORNABY
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 01/05/1935
Completed: 06/1935
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 596
Dimensions: 1174grt, 504nrt, 226.6 x 33.1 x 14.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (16, 26 & 44 x 30ins), 148nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 160745
History:
03/06/1935 Tyne-Tees Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Middlesbrough
1946 Renamed NORTHUMBRIAN COAST
01/1963 Broken up
Comments: 01/1963: Broken up at Dunston by Clayton & Davie


Above photo as THORNABY is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as NORTHUMBRIAN COAST is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as NORTHUMBRIAN COAST is copyright of Malcolm Donnelly