Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Three quarter Starboard Bow view of S.S. IOANNIS CHANDRIS, at Cardiff Docks, c.1948.

(7035gt) : Built 1942 by Short Brothers Ltd., Sunderland, as EMPIRE KEATS. 1943 – Allocated to the Greek Government and renamed IONION. (see P02.1541) 1947 – Sold to E & J Chandris, Greece and renamed IOANNIS CHANDRIS. 1955 – Sold to Navigation de Samos and renamed IOANNIS INGLESSIS (managed by D.Inglessi Fils SA, Greece). 1965 – Sold to Welfare Marine Corp., Liberia,and renamed THAI LONG (managed by Tai Chong Navigation Co. Ltd., Hong Kong. She was broken up at Keelung, Taiwan in October 1966.