Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Barry No.2 Dock, film negative

M.V. GEESTSTAR discharging cargo of bananas at Barry No. 2 Dock.

Refrigerated cargo vessel built 1973 by Scott-Lithgow Ltd., Greenock (with Sulzer diesel engine), for Geest Industries Ltd., Boston. 1986 – Sold to Seabridge Shipping Co Ltd., Limassol, Cyprus, and renamed FRIO BRAZIL., managed by Lomar Shipping Ltd., London. 1990 – Sold to Matin Marine Co Ltd., Limassol, and renamed FRIO AMAZON, managed by Elounda Shipping SA, Piraeus 1994 – Sold to Liblease Two Ltd., Kingstown, St Vincent, and renamed SICAN, managed by Roswell Navigation Corporation, Piraeus. 1995 – Sold to Hogarth Investments Corporation, Panama, and renamed NAC (same manager). She was broken up by Royal Steel Co., at Chittagong, Bangladesh in November 1995. (clydesite.co.uk)

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

1996.96/1889

Creation/Production

British Transport Docks Board
Date: 1968 (circa)

Acquisition

Donation, 14/5/1996

Measurements

Length (mm): 61
Width (mm): 91

Techniques

film negative (black & white)
film negative
negative

Material

film (photographic)

Location

In store

Classification

import and export
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