Bronze Age Gold from Wales

¾ starboard bow view of S.S. LLANBERIS, at Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff, 29 July 1947.

Many Radcliffe ships bore Welsh place-names which had the prefix 'Llan-', meaning church. The 5,055 gross ton Llanberis was named after the village at the foot of Snowdon, and was the third vessel in the Radcliffe fleet to bear this name. Built at Wallsend in 1928, she was sold to Greek owners in 1950. She is seen here discharging a cargo of sawn timber in the Queen Alexandra Dock, c. 1948.

Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.

S.S. LLANBERIS (5055gt). Built 1928 by Hawthorn, Leslie & Co., Wallsend, for Evan Thomas, Radcliffe & Co. Ltd., Cardiff. 1950 – Sold to Basil J. Mouros, Piraeus, Greece, and renamed THEOSKEPASTI. 1956 – Sold to Cia Latina de Nav., Panama, and renamed VALIENTE. 1959 – Sold to Cie Miniere et Metallurgique, Panama, and renamed KETTARA IV. She was broken up in 1960.