Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Glass negative

Hansen, Leslie W. (Photographer)

Starboard broadside view of S.S. RONALD M. SCOBIE, Cardiff Docks, 1948.

RONALD M. SCOBIE (7331gt) : Built 1945 as EMPIRE PROSPECT by Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd., Newcastle –upon-Tyne for MoWT., managed by Evan Thomas, Radcliffe & Co., Cardiff. 1947 – Sold to Panmarine Shipping Co., London and renamed RONALD M. SCOBIE. 1952 – Sold to Goulandris Brothers Ltd, London, 1954 – Sold to Bahia Salinas Cia. Nav., Panama, and renamed PLOVER. 1965 – Sold to Kowloon Carriers Inc., and renamed KOWLOON VENTURE managed by Wah Kwong & Co (Hong Kong) Ltd. She was broken up at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1969. (ref : - wikipedia/empire ships)(mariners-list/empire ships)

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

79.76I/2162

Historical Associations

Association Type: Place name
Place: Cardiff Docks

Creation/Production

Role: Photographer
Period: 1948

Acquisition

purchase, 20/9/1979

Measurements

Length (mm): 81
Width (mm): 107

Techniques

Gelatin dry plate glass negative
Glass negative
Negative

Material

Glass
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