Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Port bow view of S.S. PACIFIC LIBERTY at Cardiff Docks.

Launched 1943 as LORRIN A. THURSTON, but completed by California Shipbuilding Corp., Los Angeles (engine by Joshua Hendy Ionworks, Sunnyvale, California) as SAMCALIA, managed for MoWT by Furness Withy & Co., London. 1947 – Sold to Furness Withy & Co., and renamed PACIFIC LIBERTY. 1954 – Sold to Febo Ameo Bertorella Soc., Genoa, and renamed PHOEBUS under the Italian flag. 1962 – Sold to Seatide Shipping Co., Lugano, and renamed BAYHORSE, under the Liberian flag. 1966 – Registration transferred to Panama (same owners). 1970 – Sold to Cia de Nav Houston, Lugano, and renamed SAN GABRIEL (Panama). She was broken up at Split, Yugoslavia, in 1971. (mariners-l/libertyships)