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Name |
No |
GRT |
Previously |
Company |
Built |
Acquired |
Service Comm |
Service End |
Reason |
Notes |
Renamed |
Where are
they now? |
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Manchester Producer |
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6576 |
Start Point |
Furness Withy,
UK |
1916 |
1921 |
1921 |
1939 |
Purchased |
Board of Trade,
UK |
Botwey |
26.7.1941 Torpedoed
& sunk in Convoy OS 1 by U141 NW of St Kilda 55º42"N 09º50"W -
53 saved. |
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Manchester Spinner |
2 |
4767 |
Grampian Range |
Furness Withy,
UK |
1918 |
1921 |
1921 |
1944 |
WW II Scuttled |
Normandy blockship |
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Scuttled as
part of Gooseberry Harbour No 4 off Juno Beach. Normandy. |
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Manchester Regiment |
1 |
7930 |
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1922 |
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1922 |
1939 |
WW II No lights |
Convoy collision
& sunk 04/12/1939 SW of Cape Race 44º50"N 55º30"W by PSNC Oropesa
- 7 lost. |
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Manchester Citizen |
2 |
5328 |
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1925 |
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1925 |
09/07/1943 |
Enemy action |
Torpedoed & sunk
09 July 1943 U508 5º50"N 2º22"E, SE of Accra, West Africa - 15
lost |
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Manchester Commerce |
3 |
5342 |
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1925 |
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1925 |
1952 |
Sold |
Camel Lines,
UK |
Corbita |
1952 Sold to East and West Steamship
Co. Karachi. Renamed Fakirjee Cowasjee.
1967 Broken up at Karachi |
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El Argentino |
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9501 |
50% owned |
Furness Houlder,
UK |
1928 |
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1928 |
1934 |
Sold back |
Bombed & sunk
in Convoy OS 52KM 39º50"N 13 16736"W off Lisbon in 1943 - 4 lost. |
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Manchester Exporter |
1 |
5277 |
Rexmore |
Johnson Line,
UK |
1918 |
1929 |
1929 |
1947 |
Sold |
Cargueros Panamenos
S.A. (Wallem & Company
Hong Kong) |
Nicaragua |
1948 Sold
& renamed Yu Tung, China. 1950 Sold & renamed
Rio Bamba, Panama. 1952 Sold & renamed Precila, to T.Y. Chao, Hong
Kong. 06/1958 Broken up Osaka, Japan.
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Manchester Port |
3 |
7921 |
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1935 |
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1935 |
1964 |
Breakers |
Bilbao |
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01/1965 Broken
up in Bilbao |
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Manchester City |
2 |
7296 |
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1937 |
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1937 |
1964 |
Breakers |
1939-1945
Requisitioned as a minelayer & an Auxiliary. Broken
up in Faslane
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Manchester Progress
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1 |
7346 |
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1938 |
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1938 |
17/01/1966 |
Breakers |
02/1966 Split |
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