Bronze Age Gold from Wales
S.S IXIA, glass negative
Three quarter Port Bow view of S.S IXIA, in Cardiff Dock, 1948.
ss. IXIA (3) (7201gt) : Built 1944 as EMPIRE KUMASI by William Hamilton & Co Ltd, Port Glasgow (with triple-expansion engine by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd., Glasgow), for MoWT managed by Joseph Robinson & Sons 1946 – Sold to Stag Line Ltd., and converted from coal to oil burning. Renamed IXIA in 1947. 1951 – Sold to Century Shipping Corporation, Liberia, and renamed EMPIRE TRADER. 1954 – Sold to Compagnia Atlantica Pacifica SA, Liberia, and renamed NORTH RIVER. She was broken up at La Spezia in 1960. (ShipsNostalgia/ Stag Line)
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
79.76I/1998
Creation/Production
Hansen, Leslie W.
Date: 1948
Acquisition
Purchase, 20/9/1979
Measurements
Length
(mm): 83
Width
(mm): 107
Techniques
gelatin dry plate glass negative
glass negative
negative
Material
glass
Location
In store
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