(Mouchel-Hennebique patent)
Gourock Shipyard was provided with four slipways. Greenock Shipyard was provided with a dry dock. All the completed barges seem to have been built at Greenock

CRETEHIGHWAY (barge) Yard.no: 1. (Off.no.: 143457)
Lch.: 1919.06.12., Compl.: 1919.12.
705 grt, 658 nrt.
Dim: 54,86 x 9,58 x 5,79 m.
Owners:
1917: Ordered as PD 91.
1919.12.: Completed for The Shipping Controller, London, U.K. as CRETEHIGHWAY.
1921: Transferred to the Board of Trade, London, U.K.
1922: Crete Shipping Co. Ltd., London, U.K. (mgr: Stelp & Leighton Ltd.)
1927: Sold to A. T. Vega, Gijon, Spain and sunk for harbour purpose..

CRETEHAVEN (barge) Yard.no: 2. (Off.no.: 143922)
Lch.: 1919.08.14., Compl.: 1920.
705 grt, 658 nrt.
Dim: 54,86 x 9,75 x 5,79, Draft: 4,65 m.
Owners:
1917: Ordered as PD 92
1920: Completed for The Shipping Controller, London, U.K. as CRETEHAVEN.
1920.12.02. Pounded against quay at Le Havre and sank. (voyage Newcastle-Le Havre with coal)
1921.06.24. Raised but grounded.
1921.07.09 Refloated and scrapped.

CRETEHIVE (barge) Yard.no: 3. (Off.no.: 144288)
Lch.: 1919.11.11., Compl.: 1920.03.
704 grt, 658 nrt.
Dim: 54,86 x 9,75 x 5,79, Draft: 4,65 m.
Owners: Owners:
1917: Ordered as PD 93.
1920.03: Completed for The Shipping Controller, London, U.K. as CRETEHIVE.
1921: Transferred to the Board of Trade, London, U.K.
1922. Crete Shipping Co. Ltd., London, U.K. (mgr: Stelp & Leighton Ltd.)
1923. Sold to Norway
1925. Sold to Iceland.
1927. Deleted from register

CRETEHILL (barge) (Off.no.: 143031) Yard.no: 5.
Lch.: 1918.11.27., Compl.: 1919.05.
704 grt, 658 nrt.
Dim: 54,86 x 9,58 x 5,79, Draft: 4,65 m.
Owners:
1917: Ordered as PD 90
1919.05.: Completyed for The Shipping Controller, London, U.K. as CRETEHILL.
1921: Transferred to the Board of Trade, London, U.K.
1922. Crete Shipping Co. Ltd., London, U.K. (Mgr: Stelp & Leighton Ltd.)
1928: Sherwood Hunter Ltd, Newlyn, U.K.
1949.03.15.: Taken out from Newlyn Harbour and sunk.

CRETEHUT (sailing ship) Yard.no: 10. (Off.no.: 143410)
Lch.: 1919.05.29, Compl.: 1919.10
705 grt, 658 nrt.
Dim: 54,86 x 9,58 x 5,79 m.
Owners:
1917: Ordered as PD 94.
1919.10.: Completed for The Shipping Controller, London, U.K. as CRETEHUT.
1921: Transferred to the Board of Trade, London, U.K.
1922: Crete Shipping Co. Ltd., London, U.K. (mgr: Stelp & Leighton Ltd.)
1922: T. H. Skogland & Son A/S, Haugesund, Norway. renamed SKOGLAND I.
1930 Deleted from register

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Last update: 2001.03.27.