Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Full hull ship model in wood and glass case. Plaque on either side.

The model has one anomaly. She is shown on her stern as being Cardiff-registered, whereas the original vessel, in common with other vessels in the Reardon Smith fleet at the time, was registered at Bideford.

The M.V. VICTORIA CITY was a steel motor vessel of 6162 gross tons, completed in 1955 by Sir William Doxford & Sons, Pallion Yard, Sunderland, for Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons, Cardiff. On 14 December 1955, whilst on her maiden voyage from Hamburg to Hampton Roads with general cargo, she collided with the Italian oil tanker Valentina Bibolini off the Dutch coast, and sank. All hands were saved.