Bronze Age Gold from Wales

S.S. STUART PRINCE, glass negative

Port broadside view of S.S. STUART PRINCE at Cardiff Docks.

Built 1940 by Smith’s Dockyard Co., Middlesbro’, for Prince Line, managed by Furness, Withy & Co. 1951 - Chartered to Bermuda & West Indies Steamship Co., and renamed FORT HAMILTON (for operation with FORT AVALON). 1958 – Returned to Prince Line and reverted to STUART PRINCE. 1959 – Sold to Cia Maritima Med Ltda, Beirut (together with FORT AVALON), and renamed HALCYON MED. While en route from Azrew, Algeria to Granton on 28 August 1960, she was run into by ESSO SWITZERLAND and broke into two. She sank 120miles east of Gibraltar. (Red Duster / Prince Line)

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

79.76I/2737

Creation/Production

Hansen, Leslie W.
Date: 1948 (circa)

Acquisition

Purchase, 20/9/1979

Measurements

Length (mm): 81
Width (mm): 106

Techniques

gelatin dry plate glass negative
glass negative
negative

Material

glass

Location

In store
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