Category:Socoa (ship, 1901)

English: Socoa was a French full-rigged steel ship built at Chantiers de St. Nazaire in 1901. Tonnage: 2613 tons. On the 2nd August 1906, she was on a voyage Stettin - San Francisco with a cargo of cement, she was stranded off Kildonan Point, Lizard in dense fog, she was re-floated after jettisoning 50000 barrels of cement and beached in Cadgwith Cove. She was later towed round to Falmouth and repaired. In 1907 she was sold and re-named Thiers and was continued to sail under the French flag until laid up in 1921. Thiers was sold to the breakers in 1927.^[1][2]