Bronze Age Gold from Wales

¾ Starboard stern view of S.S. LORD COCHRANE at Cardiff Docks.

Completed 1934 as ARCWEAR by Short Brothers, Pallion for Arcwear Steamship Co. (Isherwood Arcform Ships Ltd). 1936 – Sold to Norwich Steamship Co., and renamed LORD COCHRANE (managed by Ships Finance & Management Co Ltd). 1950 – Sold to August Bolten Wm. Miller’s Nachfolger (GmbH & Co.) KG, Hamburg, and renamed FRIEDEN. 1958 – Sold to N.D. Koufos, and renamed MARTHA. 1964 – Sold to M. Scoufalos, Piraeus, Greece, and renamed BOSTON L. 1966 – Sold to Concordia Enterprises Inc., Panama, and renamed HELENE (managed by Ferrando & Massone of Genoa, Italy). She became stranded off Inhaca Island near Mozambique on 25 July 1968. She was refloated, but was broken up at Durban in the September.