Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Taking the rope from S.S. RAMILLIES onto the tug THE EARL

Not same as one sunk late 19th century

Built 1951 as SEAWALL by William Gray & Co., West Hartlepool (with triple expansion engine by Central Marine Engine Works, Hartlepool), for Matapan Shipping Co. (Lykiardopulo & Co), London. 1955 – Sold to British Steam Shipping Co. (John Cory & Sons, Cardiff), and renamed RAMILLIES. 1966 – Sold to Pakistan National Shipping Corporation, and renamed SURMA. She was bombed and sunk at Chaina by Indian aircraft on 12th December 1971. John Cory & Sons