WHITFLEET

Built 1935
Type Cargo Ship
Tonnages 1829 grt, 993 nrt
Dimensions 264.2 x 39.5 x 12.8 ft
Shipbuilder (yard number) Burntisland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Burntisland (191)
Engine builder North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co. Ltd., Sunderland
Engine T3cyl (16.5, 26, 47 x 33in)
O.N. 164555
Owners 1935 Cory Colliers Ltd. (Wm. Cory & Sons Ltd.), London as CORBRAE
 

03/1940 requisitioned by the Admiralty and became an experimental magnetic minesweeper, from 1944 employed as a repair ship, listed for disposal from 11/1946

  1946 Kinburn Shipping Co. Ltd. (Comben Longstaff & Co. Ltd.), London; renamed KINBURN
  1948 Williamstown Shipping Co. Ltd. (Comben Longstaff & Co. Ltd.), London; renamed KENTBROOK
  1951 Ouse S.S. Co. Ltd. (E. P. Atkinson & Sons), Goole; renamed WHITFLEET
   
Fate

04/07/1960 arrived at Dunston-on-Tyne for breaking by Clayton & Davie Ltd.

 

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