The HOLDERNESS was wrecked on the Sow & Pigs Rocks, off Blyth 11/03/1959. She was built as the MAINDY TOWER by Rennie Ritchie at Wivenhoe in 1920.

Photographer unknown

She also had a Tees connection during her life.
1920, 975grt
Rennie, Ritchie & Newport, Wivenhoe (1310) as MAINDY TOWER
for Maindy Transport Co. (Jenkins, Richards & Evans), Cardiff
1922 Sir David Llewellyn, Cardiff
1925 GLEDBURN, Geddes & Couper, Newcastle
1936 GRANGETOFT, Toft S.S. Co. (T. H. Donking), Middlesbrough

1955 HOLDERNESS, Holderness S.S. Co., Hull


Wrecked on the Sow and Pigs Rocks off Blyth East Pier on 11/3/1959,
Blyth for Londonderry with coal