Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Three quarter Starboard Bow view of S.S. YAMASKA PARK, at Cardiff Docks, 29 October 1947.

North Sands type vessel built 1944 by Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel, Quebec (engine by Dominion Engineering Works Ltd., Montreal), for Park Steamship Co., Montreal, managed by Furness Withy & Co, Montreal. 1946 – Assigned to the UK Ministry of Transport, managed by Novocastria Shipping Co., 1950 – Management entrusted to W.H.Seager & Co., Cardiff. 1951 – Sold to Yamaska Steamship Co., London, and renamed YAMASKA, managed by Ships Finance & Management Co. 1954 – Managed by Lambert Bros., London. (Same name and same owner). 1959 – Sold to Dah Lien Shipping Co., Hong Kong, and renamed GUNN. Later that year acquired by the Chinese Peoples’ Republic, and renamed HO PING 30. 1967 - Same owner, renamed ZHAN DOU 30. Final fate unknown, but she was deleted from Lloyds registers in 1992.