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Bussorah

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1890 Bussorah Appleby & Co.
1891 Greatham Appleby & Co.
1906 Greatham Clydesdale Navigation Co. Ltd.
1916 Greatham Dawson Shipping Co. Ltd.
1917 Greatham Coombes, Marshall & Co. Ltd.

Fate

The Middlesbrough-registered steamship Greatham was torpedoed and sunk by UB-31 (Thomas Biber), 3 miles south-east of Dartmouth, on January 22nd, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Grimsby to Blaye with a cargo of coal. Master R. Harrison. Seven crew were lost.

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