Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Stern view of the S.S. CLAN BRODIE dockside at Newport Docks.

S.S. CLAN BRODIE. Laid down as Cameron class steamer CLAN BRODIE for the Clan Line, but requisitioned by the Admiralty while still on the stocks, and completed 1940 by Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co., Greenock, as Air Transport ship, HMS ATHENE. She was fitted with a single catapult and was capable of carrying 40 seaplanes. 1946 – Rebuilt as a merchant vessel (with a split bridge), renamed CLAN BRODIE, and finally delivered to Clan Line Steamers Ltd, managed by Cayzer, Irvine & Co Ltd. 1962 – Transferred to King Line Ltd., London. In June 1963, while at Colombo, she was sold for scrap to Hong Kong Salvage & Towage Co Ltd., and arrived at Mollers Ltd at Hong Kong in the July to be broken up.