Career: | 5 Dec 1940 Sunk by enemy action 54.14N/18.08W
Cedric Gurton, a Tollesbury resident, as a young boy before the War, used to do deliveries to the ships with the local butcher. He can remember the SILVERPINE as being the second boat in from the outer end of the anchorage.
In Oyster Company ledger.
Mid Essex WSS - Lloyds List: arrived 13 Jul 1932 sailed 18 Aug 1934.
Sunderland Daily Echo & Shipping Gazette of 6 Aug 1932 reported SILVERPINE arrived River Blackwater 07-07-32
Sunderland Daily Echo & Shipping Gazette 22 Aug 1934 reported arrival of SILVERPINE from River Blackwater off River Wear and subsequent incident of ship blown 8 miles out to sea because of bad weather and engine trouble.
Shields Daily News 22 Aug 1934 SILVERPINE arrived River Wear 21-08-34 from River Blackwater |