RICHARDSON, DUCK & COMPANY, THORNABY

Name BEACHY HEAD
Type Cargo
Yard Number 647
Launched 10/08/1915
Completed 09/1915
Off. Number 139090
Engine builder Blair & Co., Stockton-on-Tees
Engine type T. 3 cyl.
GRT 4274
Length (feet) 380
Beam (feet) 51
First owner Fargrove S.N. Co. Ltd. (Farrar, Groves & Co. Ltd.), London
   
History 1917 GRELHEAD, Griffiths Lewis S.N. Co. Ltd. (J. C. Gould & Co.), Cardiff
  1920 Gould Steamships & Industrial Ltd., London
  1925 The Derwen Shipping Co. Ltd. (D. G. Hall & Co.), London
  1931 Heanton Shipping Co. Ltd. (W. T. Gould), London
  1937 Cardigan Shipping Co. Ltd. (same manager)
   
Fate 02/12/1941 torpedoed by U.562 when 2 miles north of Point Negri, Morocco on passage Melilla for the U.K. with iron ore.

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