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Lorca

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1 Introduction
2 Basic Data
3 Career Highlights
4 Service Pre WW2
5 Participation in WW2 Convoys
6 Service Post WW2
7 External resources
8 Images
9 Contributors

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Introduction

The name Lorca was kept when she joined the Court Line fleet in 1943.

She had a service life of 25 years which included taking part in a large number of WW2 convoys but which was brought to an end when she ran aground on the St Lawrence in 1955 and was abandoned and broken up.

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Basic Data

Type: Cargo ship
Registered owners,managers and operators: Cory & Strick (Steamers) Ltd. - Managers Frank C.Strick & Co. Ltd. London
Builders: J Redhead & Sons Ltd.
Yard: South Shields
Country: UK
Yard number: 504
Registry: N/K
Official number: 162525
Signal letters: N/K
Call sign: N/K
Classification society: N/K
Gross tonnage: 4,875
Net tonnage: 3,007
Deadweight: N/K
Length: 393.4ft
Breadth: 53.8 ft
Depth: 26.5 ft
Draught: N/K
Engines: 3 cylinder triple expansion steam engine
Engine builders: J. Redhead & Sons Ltd
Works: South Shields
Country: UK
Power: N/K
Propulsion: Single screw
Speed: 10.5 knots
Cargo capacity: N/K
Crew: N/K

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Career Highlights

22 Sep 1930: Launched
12 Jan 1931: Completed
1943: Acquired by the United British Steam Ship Co. Ltd. - Managers Haldin & Phillipps
1944: Sold to Maritime Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd. - Managers Michalinos & Co. Ltd. And renamed Loradore
13 Aug 1955: Went aground
17 Aug 1955: Abandoned and broken up (location of breakers not known)

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Service Pre WW2

No information is currently known other than the changes of owners and names shown in the Career Highlights section.

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Participation in WW2 Convoys

The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #4 which indicates that Lorca participated in 75 convoys.

A key to the routes for these convoys can be found on this page: World War 2 Convoy Names

List of Convoys
Convoy No.	Route	Convoy No.	Route
OA.16G	Oct 1939: Southend - Formed OG.2	OG.2	Oct 1939: Formed at sea - Gibraltar
HG.6	Nov 1939: Gibraltar - Uk Ports	HG.13	Dec 1939: Gibraltar - Liverpool
OG.18	Feb 1940: Formed at sea - Gibraltar	OB.90	Feb 1940: Liverpool - Formed OG.18
OB.120	Mar 1940: Liverpool - Formed OG.24	HG.22F	Mar 1940: Gibraltar - Liverpool
OG.24	Apr 1940: Formed at sea - Gibraltar	OB.150	May 1940: Liverpool - Formed OG.30
OG.30	May 1940: Formed at sea - Gibraltar	SL/MKS.36	Jun 1940: Freetown - Liverpool
HGZ	Jun 1940: Gibraltar - Joined sl.36	R.31	Jun 1940: Oran - Gibraltar
HX.70	Sep 1940: Halifax - Liverpool	OA.231	Oct 1940: Methil - Dispersed
FS.353	Dec 1940: Methil - Southend	SC.16	Dec 1940: Halifax - Liverpool
FS.396	Jan 1941: Methil - Southend	WN.71	Jan 1941: Clyde - Methil
EN.74/1	Feb 1941: Methil - Oban	EN.75/1	Feb 1941: Methil - Oban
OB.291	Feb 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed	SL/MKS.72	Apr 1941: Freetown - Liverpool
OB.337	Jun 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed 48.17N 20.40W	SL/MKS.82	Jul 1941: Freetown - Liverpool
PQ.1	Sep 1941: Hvalfjord - Archangel	QP.2	Nov 1941: Archangel - Kirkwall
ON.14	Sep 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed 56.25N 24.50W	OS/KMS.15	Dec 1941: Liverpool - Bathurst
WN.207	Nov 1941: Oban - Methil	EN.22	Dec 1941: Methil - Oban
SL/MKS.102	Mar 1942: Freetown - Liverpool	BB.157	Apr 1942: Belfast Lough - Milford Haven
OS/KMS.26	Apr 1942: Liverpool - Freetown	OS/KMS.27	May 1942: Liverpool - Freetown
BB.190	Jun 1942: Belfast Lough - Milford Haven	SL/MKS.112	Jun 1942: Freetown - Liverpool
OSS.34	Jul 1942: Ex os 34 - Takoradi	OS/KMS.34	Jul 1942: Liverpool - Freetown
TS.15	Aug 1942: Takoradi - Freetown	SL/MKS.121	Sep 1942: Freetown - Liverpool
ON.138	Oct 1942: Liverpool - NYC	TAG.22	Nov 1942: Trinidad - Guantanamo
ON.146	Nov 1942: Liverpool - NYC	ST.46	Dec 1942: Freetown - Takoradi
FTT.6	Dec 1942: Freetown - Trinidad	TAG.SP	Jan 1943: Trinidad - Kingston, Jamaica
ZG.20	Jan 1943: Cristobal - Guantanamo	SC.120	Feb 1943: NYC - Liverpool
OS/KMS.45	Mar 1943: Liverpool - Freetown	SL/MKS.129	May 1943: Freetown - Rendezvous with MKS.13
SL/MKS.129MK	May 1943: Rendezvous of SL129 with MKS13 - Liverpool	OS/KMS.51	Jul 1943: Ex OS51/ KMS20 - Freetown
OS/KMS.51KM	Jul 1943: Liverpool - Convoy Split	SL/MKS.136	Sep 1943: Freetown - Rendezvous with MKS.24
SL/MKS.136MK	Sep 1943: Rendezvous of SL136 with MKS24G - Liverpool	WN.484	Sep 1943: Loch Ewe - Methil
OS/KMS.59KM	Nov 1943: Liverpool - Convoy Split	EN.306	Nov 1943: Methil - Loch Ewe
KMS.33	Nov 1943: Gibraltar - Port Said	KMS.33G	Nov 1943: Ex OS59/ KMS33 - Gibraltar
MKS.34	Dec 1943: Port Said - Gibraltar	SL/MKS.147	Jan 1944: Freetown - Rendezvous with MKS.38
OS/KMS.62	Jan 1944: Ex OS62/ KMS37 - Freetown	SL/MKS.147MK	Feb 1944: Rendezvous of SL147 with MKS38 - Liverpool
OS/KMS.70KM	Mar 1944: Liverpool - Convoy Split	KMS.44G	Mar 1944: Ex OS70/ KMS44 - Gibraltar
GUS.38	Apr 1944: Port Said - Hampton Roads	MKS.46	Apr 1944: Port Said - Gibraltar
MKS.48G	May 1944: Gibraltar - Rendezvous with SL.157	SL/MKS.157MK	May 1944: Rendezvous of SL157 with MKS48 - Liverpool
OS/KMS.81KM	Jun 1944: Liverpool - Convoy Split	KMS.55	Jul 1944: Gibraltar - Port Said
KMS.55G	Jul 1944: Ex OS81/ KMS55 - Gibraltar

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Service Post WW2

She went aground on Bird Rocks, Magdalen Island, St Lawrence on route from Sydney to Montreal with a cargo of coal. She was abandoned and broken up but details of where this took place are not currently known.

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