Bronze Age Gold from Wales

M.V. EASTERN CITY, photograph

W. Ralston Ltd (Photographer)

M.V. EASTERN CITY at sea. Photographers stamp on reverse.

(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.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

86.23I/55

Historical Associations

Associated Person/Body: Reardon Smith Line
Association Type: Shipping company

Creation/Production

Role: Photographer
Period: 20th century, mid

Acquisition

donation, 3/2/1986

Measurements

Length (mm): 272
Width (mm): 371

Techniques

Black and white (monochrome photograph)
Photograph

Material

Paper
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