Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Port side view of M.V. TACOMA CITY alongside Fletchers' Wharf, Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff.

M.V. TACOMA CITY. Bulk carrier built 1972 by Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd, Govan (with 8-cylinder diesel engine by Harland & Wolff, Belfast) as TACOMA CITY for Reardon Smith Line Ltd ( Reardon-Smith Navigation Co. Ltd.), Cardiff. In 1985 – Sold to a Greek owner and renamed BOUGAINVILLE. 1986 – Sold to a Cypriot owner and renamed ROSEBUD. 1989 – Sold to Sea Justice SA,Piraeus, and renamed ROSALEEN M. (Gibraltar flag). 1991 – Sold to Hellenic Lines, Greece, and renamed PETALOUDA, managed by Sea Justice SA. 1992 – Sold to Zenovar Marine, Cyprus, and renamed MACFORCE. 1994 – Renamed FORCE (same owner). 1995 – Sold to Gokar Denizcilik Ticaret, Turkey, and renamed GOKAR. 1998 – Renamed GOK - same owners – but flagged at St.Vincent & The Grenadines ready for scrapping. She was abandoned at Gadani Beach on 9 June 1998, and broken up by Tariq Sultan & Co., Pakistan.