Bronze Age Gold from Wales

S.S. SAMWINGED, glass negative

Hansen, Leslie W. (Photographer)

Starboard Broadside view of S.S. SAMWINGED, at Cardiff Docks, 17 October 1947.

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.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

79.76I/1756

Historical Associations

Association Type: Place name
Place: Cardiff Docks

Creation/Production

Role: Photographer
Period: 1947 (circa)

Acquisition

purchase, 20/9/1979

Measurements

Length (mm): 82
Width (mm): 106

Techniques

Gelatin dry plate glass negative
Glass negative
Negative

Material

Glass
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