Bronze Age Gold from Wales

S.S. SKELDERGATE, glass negative

Hansen, Leslie W. (Photographer)

Starboard broadside view of S.S. SKELDERGATE, Cardiff Docks, c.1946.

ss SKELDERGATE (4251gt) : Completed 1930 by Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd., Burntisland, for Turnbull, Scott & Co., London. She survived World War 2 unscathed, but on 17th November, 1950, she was carrying wheat from Wallaroo, South Australia, to Calcutta when a cyclone drove her ashore at False Bay in the Bay of Bengal, where she was wrecked.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

79.76I/928

Historical Associations

Association Type: Place name
Place: Cardiff Docks

Creation/Production

Role: Photographer
Period: 1946 (circa)

Acquisition

purchase, 20/9/1979

Measurements

Length (mm): 81
Width (mm): 107

Techniques

Gelatin dry plate glass negative
Glass negative
Negative

Material

Glass
Comments are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience.