Bronze Age Gold from Wales
KINPURNEY, glass negative
Photograph of a painting showing a ¾ port bow view of the three masted ship KINPURNEY.
(1944gt) : Built 1902 by a.McMillan & Sons Ltd., Dumbarton, as MARGHERITA for P.Samengo. 1912 - Owned by C.K.Hansen of Copenhagen and renamed OSSA. 1915 - Owned by John Stewart & Co., Glasgow, and renamed KINPURNEY. Om 15th January 1917, she was sailing from Cardiff to PORT Nolloth, South Africa, with a cargo of coal, coke and limestone, when she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-84, 110 miles west from Bishop Rock. There were no casualties.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
79.76I/814
Creation/Production
Hansen, Leslie W.
Date: 20th century, mid
Acquisition
Purchase, 20/9/1979
Measurements
Length
(mm): 120
Width
(mm): 164
Techniques
gelatin dry plate glass negative
glass negative
negative
Material
glass
Location
In store
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