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

Measurements

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Weight (lbs): 28

Material

coal dust

Location

In store
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