Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Phoenix patent fuel block
Flat-shaped 28lb (nominal weight) patent fuel block inscribed ‘Phoenix’ with pictorial image of a phoenix. Manufactured by the Phoenix Patent Fuel Co at Swansea, shipped on the S.S. GIRDLENESS along with coal. The vessel was torpedoed by a German submarine 2 May 1918 off North Cornwall and sank.
Torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on 2 May 1918 off north Cornwall.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2018.57/2
Creation/Production
Phoenix Patent Fuel Co.
Date: 1918
Acquisition
Donation, 14/2/2018
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Weight (lbs): 28
Material
coal dust
Location
In store
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