Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Cargo Plans (notebook)
Black hardback cover with burghundy spine. Handwritten details in blue ink inside. Notebook of Cargo plans showing details of stowage on the vessels - S.S. BISLEY, S.S. ARCGOW, S.S. LORD BYRON, S.S. ENGLISH TRADER, S.S. WELSH TRADER.
S.S. LORD BYRON (4118gt). Built 1934 by Lithgows, Port Glasgow, (with engine by D. Rowan & Co, Glasgow) as ARCGOW for Arcgow Shipping Co. (managed by Isherwood Arcform Ships Ltd) London. 1936 - Sold to Norfolk Steamship Co., and renamed LORD BYRON. She was in collision with mv VESTVARD in 1942 while in a wartime convoy – the VESTVARD had been trying to change station. Another collision occurred in 1947 when she hit ss PENCARROW in the North Atlantic during heavy snow squalls. 1950 - renamed BELLATRIX. 1961 - renamed VINCENZO JACOMINO. She was broken up at Split in 1965.