Name: | TREWYN launched as WAR GANNET |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 08/12/1919 |
Completed: | 02/1920 |
Builder: | John Readhead & Sons Ltd |
Yard: | South Shields |
Yard Number: | 13 |
Dimensions: | 5241grt, 3228nrt, 400.1 x 52.4 x 28.5ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 513nhp |
Engines by: | John Readhead & Sons Ltd |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 142577 |
History: | |
02/02/1920 | Hain Steamship Co Ltd (Foster, Hain & R?ead Ltd, managers), St Ives |
1937 | Rickmers Lines, Hamburg; renamed MONI RICKMERS |
1940 | NV Nederlandsche-Indische Mij voor Zeevaart, Batavia; renamed SALANDO |
1946 | Royal Dutch Government (A Veder), Rotterdam |
1949 | Avni Nuri Meserretcioglu, Istanbul; renamed MESERRET |
1959 | Hakki Mamara, Istanbul; renamed YENI MESERRET |
1960 | Deniz Nakliyat ve Ticaret LS, Istanbul |
01/09/1962 | Wrecked |
Comments: | 08/12/1919: Launched as WAR GANNET for the British Government |
She was a 'B' Type wartime standard steamer | |
10/05/1940: Seized by the Dutch Government at Sabang | |
01/09/1962: Wrecked at Green Island, Hong Kong | |
06/09/1962: Beyond economical repair & broken up at Gin Drinker's Bay, Hong Kong |
Above photo as TREWYN is courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo as TREWYN is copyright of A Duncan
Above photo as YENI MESERRET is courtesy of Richard Cox