Bronze Age Gold from Wales

S.S. GRANROCK, film negative

Hansen, Leslie W. (Photographer)

Starboard Broadside view of S.S. GRANROCK in Cardiff Docks, c...1948.

S.S. GRANROCK (7067gt). Built 1944 as EMPIRE SWORDSMAN by William Hamilton & Co. Ltd., Port Glasgow for MoWT. 1948 – Sold to Goulandris Brothers Ltd., London, and renamed GRANROCK. 1950 – Sold to Ben Line Steamers Ltd., and renamed BENLOYAL. 1951 – Sold to Glasgow United Shipping Co. Ltd., and renamed LOCH RANZA (managed by Maclay & McIntyre Ltd). 1960 – Sold to Trico Corp., SA, Lebanon and renamed TERTRIC. She was broken up at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in April 1968.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

79.76I/2134

Historical Associations

Association Type: Place name

Creation/Production

Role: Photographer
Period: 1948 (circa)

Acquisition

purchase, 20/9/1979

Measurements

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

Techniques

Film negative (black & white)
Film negative
Negative

Material

Film (photographic)
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