SIR RAYLTON DIXON & COMPANY, MIDDLESBROUGH

Name CORSO
Type Cargo
Yard Number 472
Launched 28/06/1900
Completed 08/1900
Off. Number 113530
Engine builder T. Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool
Engine type T. 3 cyl.
GRT 1778
Length (feet) 272.5
Beam (feet) 40
First owner Empire Shipping Co. Ltd. (G. H. Wills & Co.), Cardiff
History 1914 managers G. H. Wills & Cory
1915 FRIMAIRE, Plisson Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., London
   
Fate 15/03/1917 torpedoed by UC.21 when 21 miles SSE of Belle Île on passage St. Nazaire for Bayonne in ballast.

 

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