Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Starboard Broadside view of S.S. TOWER GRANGE, c.1948.

TOWER GRANGE (7068gt) : Built 1944 as EMPIRE MORLEY by Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne for MoWT, managed by Headlam & Son, Whitby. 1947 – Sold to Tower Steamships Co Ltd and renamed TOWER GRANGE, managed by Counties Ship Management Co. Ltd., London. Both companies were part of the Rethymnis & Kulukundis shipbroking company. 1949 – Transferred to London & Overseas Freighters (another Rethymnis & Kulukundis company) and renamed LONDON TRADER. 1950 – Sold to Compania Maritima Azores S.A., Liberia and renamed NICO (managed by G.S. Embiricos), registered at Panama. She was broken up at Etajima, Japan in 1969.