Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Three quarter Port Bow view of S.S. SPYRIDON, at Cardiff Docks, c. 1947/1948.

s.s. SPYRIDON II at Cardiff. Built 1917 by Campbelltown Shipbuilding Company as LADY CHARLOTTE : renamed SOUTHSEA in 1920, and again renamed IOANNIS CARRAS in 1930 : She was captured by the Germans and named STORHAUG (1941), EICENES (1941) and KOMET (1943). She was taken by the allied forces in 1945 and given back to Greek owners in 1946 as SPYRIDON II : She became the BELLAVISTA in 1947 and was lost in the Orkneys in 1948.