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Certificate of discharge to Capt. B.T. Morris
Black print on cream paper with hand written details in black ink. Certificate of discharge belonging to Captain B.T. Morris discharged from HOLDERNESS at Penarth, 11 March 1895.
Built 1920 as MAINDY TOWER by Rennie, Ritchie & Newport Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Wivenhoe, Essex, (with an engine by Plenty & Son, of Newbury), for Jenkins, Richards & Evans Ltd., Cardiff. 1925 – Sold to Geddes & Couper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and renamed GLEDBURN. 1936 – Sold to Kingdon Steamship Co.Ltd. (T.H. Donking & Sons), Middlesbrough, and renamed GRANGETOFT. 1955 – Sold to Holderness Steamship Co. Ltd., Hull, and renamed HOLDERNESS. She became wrecked on the Sow & Pigs Rocks, near Blyth, on 11 March 1959 while bound for Londonderry with a cargo of coal.