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Horsley - a general history

Completed September 1901; Official No. 112447: Code Letters SNMF.

Owners: 1901 Horsley Line Ltd, (MH Horsley mgr) West Hartlepool; 1915 Plisson Steam Navigation Co, London–renamed Fructidor; 1916 Union Shipping & Trading Co Ltd, London–renamed Reims; 1919 Ricardo Ortiz Artinano, Bilbao–renamed Consuelo; 1930 Maura y Arestis, Bilbao–renamed Aranguren.

Masters: 1908-13 Swen Ohlson Northfell (b. 1860 Sweden).

On a voyage from Brala for Hamburg with a cargo of grain Aranguren sank when run down in dense fog by the French Naval tank Le Loing four miles NE of Khairsis Island, Marmara on 14 November 1931. Crew were saved by the latter vessel & landed at Istanboul.

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