Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Black and white photograph showing the S.S. RIVERVILLE waiting to be broken up at breakers yard, Llanelli, c.1952. Mounted onto card.

Built 1911 as LORD BACON by G. Brown & Co., Garvel Yard, Greenock, with 2-cylinder engine by Gauldie, Gillespie & Co., Glasgow, for John Bacon Ltd., Liverpool. 1913 – Sold to John S Monks and renamed ELIZABETTA. She was damaged by the German submarine UB 65 on 8th May 1918 when she was “assaulted by gunfire” and 5 crew members taken prisoner while en route from Dublin to Cardiff. 1934 – Renamed RIVERVILLE (same owner). She ran ashore at Walney Island, Lancashire on the 16th February 1935 during a storm. All seven crew were rescued by breeches buoy, but the vessel was pulled off by a tug on the next high tide andcontinued its voyage unscathed. She was broken up by J. Edgar Rees & Co. Ltd., at Lanelli in December 1952. (Tony Allen Wrecksite)(clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=2999)