Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Port broadside view of S.S. FORT CUMBERLAND at Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff, c.1947.

S.S. FORT CUMBERLAND (7123gt). North Sands type, built 1943 by Burrard Dry Dock Co., North Vancouver (engines by Allis-Chalmers) for MoWT, managed by Lyle Shipping Co. 1950 – Sold to Lyle Shipping Co., Glasgow, and renamed CAPE FRANKLIN. 1956 – Sold to West Africa Navigation Company, Monrovia, and renamed AFRICA SKY. 1960 – Acquired by General Navigation Ltd., of Monrovia (name retained). She was broken up at Yokosaka in 1966. (There was also a T2-SE-A1 tanker (machinery aft) named FORT CUMBERLAND – built in 1944).