Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Bronze Age Gold from Wales

S.S. MELROSE ABBEY, photograph

Frank & Sons (Photographer)

Launch party of the S.S. MELROSE ABBEY, 20 May 1936 at William Gray shipyard, West Hartlepool. Photographers details embossed bottom right, and stamped on back.

S.S. MELROSE ABBEY (6) (2473 tons). Built 1936. She was torpedoed in December 1942.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

1997.89/16

Historical Associations

Associated Person/Body: Abbey Line
Association Type: Shipping company
Date: 1936
Associated Person/Body: William Gray & Co. Ltd.
Association Type: Ship builder
Date: 1936
Place: West Hartlepool

Creation/Production

Frank & Sons
Role: Photographer
Place: South Shields
Period: 20/05/1936

Acquisition

donation, 31/5/1997

Measurements

Length (mm): 271
Width (mm): 356

Techniques

Black and white (monochrome photograph)
Photograph

Material

Paper

Categories

Steam (maritime) Maritime 1930s Melrose Abbey (S.S.) (6)

Classification

shipbuilding trades launch (ship)
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