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Name: CORNHILL
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 13/12/1890
Completed: 02/1891
Builder: Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 20
Dimensions: 922grt, 534nrt, 195.4 x 31.6 x 12.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (17, 28 & 46 x 33ins), 138nhp
Engines by: Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 8.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 97958
History:
02/1891 Warkworth Ship Co Ltd, Newcastle
1898 Gregory B Wadsworth, Goole
1919 Llewellyn Shipping Co Ltd (WB Thomas & Co), Cardiff
1923 FL Nimtz, Stettin; renamed MARIANNE
1930 F Pokerns & Co, Ventspils; renamed AINA
1932 Broken up
Comments: 13/01/1932: Grounded on Haisboro' Sands
On a voyage from London to Goole
Subsequently refloated with rudder damage
04/1932: Broken up in Latvia


Above photo as CORNHILL is courtesy of Richard Cox

Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Saturday, 13/12/1890

Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, Thursday, 14/01/1932