RICHARDSON, DUCK & COMPANY, THORNABY

Name EDDYSTONE
Type Cargo
Yard Number 626
Launched 25/06/1912
Completed 07/1912
Off. Number 132748
Engine builder Blair & Co., Stockton-on-Tees
Engine type T. 3 cyl.
GRT 4214
Length (feet) 380
Beam (feet) 51
First owner Fargrove S.N. Co. Ltd. (Farrar, Groves & Co. Ltd.), London
   
History 1918 GRELSTONE, Griffiths Lewis S.N. Co. Ltd. (J. C. Gould & Co.), Cardiff
  1920 Gould Steamship & Industrials Ltd., Cardiff
  1926 Derwen Shipping Co. Ltd. (David G. Hall & Co.), Cardiff
  1931 MARIONGA, Proios Brothers, Chios
  1935 C. M. Proios, Chios
  1938 J. M. Nikoforos, Chios
  1939 Neill & Pandelis Ltd., Piraeus
   
Fate 23/05/1941 torpedoed by U.103 in 05.42N 10.29W on passage Glasgow for Takoradi with stores.

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