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Name: FLORENCE COOKE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 14/06/1923
Completed: 08/1923
Builder: Hepples (1919) Ltd
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 660
Dimensions: 294grt, 109nrt, 130.1 x 22.6 x 9.5ft
Engines: C2cyl (17 & 34 x 24ins), 62rhp
Engines by: Shields Engineering & Dry Dock Co Ltd, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 146926
History:
09/08/1923 Cooke's Explosives Ltd, Penrhyn, North Wales
09/08/1923 Registered at Sunderland, (A Bainbridge, manager)
27/02/1959 Broken up
Comments: 1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty for use as a ammunition ship
1945: Returned to owners
27/02/1959: Sold to Dutch shipbreakers at Nieuw Lekkerland


Above photo is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo is courtesy of Richard Cox

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Above photo is courtesy of Richard Cox