Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Applique portrait of the S.S. MELROSE ABBEY. Sewn in wool etc. on silk, with sails sewn on. Framed and glazed. The picture would appear to have been presented to the master of the ship on its first visit to New York in the late 1870s, and in 1942 it somehow appeared for sale at Howell’s store, Cardiff where it was bought by Mrs H.S. Jones, Frederick Jones’s daughter-in-law.

S.S. MELROSE ABBEY (1) (1211 tons). Built by Thomas Turnbull and Son, Whitby in 1877 for Pyman Bros, Cardiff. In 1897 the ship was transferred to the Melrose Abbey Steamship Co. Ltd. (Pyman, Watson and Company), Cardiff. In 1907 ownership of ship was transferred to Melrose Abbey Steamship Co. (1907) Ltd (Jones and Pritchard) Cardiff. On 31 July 1909 the MELROSE ABBEY was wrecked on Les Fourches, off Penmarch, on passage from Arcachon to Barry with pitwood.