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Hawnby

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1936 Hawnby Ropner Shipping Co. Ltd.

Fate

On a voyage from the Tyne for Genoa with a cargo of coal & a total compliment of 39 Hawnby struck a mine & sank off the Thames Estuary on 20 April 1940. Crew were rescued by MTB 4.

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