Before I begin,can I just ask our Admin Doc Vernon to consider correcting the forum title to Chapman and WILLAN,please?
Well,thanks to Shipping Today and Yesterday magazine there is a feature also on line about this company HERE.
It gives us a good 'part' history about the company up to a certain point when it informs you 'for the rest of the history,please subscribe to the magazine' !, but nevertheless what it gives is quite a good little history.
As always ,when anybody mentions the name of a ship,I just have to look it up to see it's history,fate etc.
So,JS ,in Yr.#2 you had me fooled looking for your 'Geneton'-it took me a while before I found it-the GENERTON !
INFOLINK-GENERTON
Image courtesy John Bage Coll'n.Sunderland Ships site
She traded for 33 years,19 of those with Chapman & Willan,5 years with the Finns,then 9 with Panamanian flagged Far East owners. She had amongst her career highlights been bombed in the North Sea in July 1940,and the year before her scrapping in Taiwan in 1969 she was abandoned with leaks by her crew,before being salvaged and towed for scrap.
Her similarly dimensioned sisters built slightly later were the HERMISTON and the SCORTON
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