Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Black and white photograph showing port view of the EASTERN CITY on trials in the Clyde, June 1965.

(7612gt) : Built 1945 by California Shipbuilding Corp., Los Angeles, engine by Joshua Hendy Iron Works, for the US War Shipping Administration, Portland, Oregon (managed by McCormick Steamship Co.). Laid up at Beaumont from 1949 and later transferred to James River,Virginia. She was broken up at Recife, Brazil in 1986.