Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Payslip issued to Mr D.M. Williams, ref. S.S. Samwinged. Black print on brown paper on both sides, details filled out in ink on front only.

1995.37/5-13 date range 15 February 1943 to 3 March 1948.

ss. SAMWINGED (7125gt) : Built 1944 by Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore (engine by Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp., Harrison, New Jersey), managed for MoWT by Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons, Cardiff. 1948 – Returned to the US Maritime Commission and laid up at Mobile, Alabama as part of the reserve fleet. She was broken up at Panama City in 1960.