Bronze Age Gold from Wales

M.V. TACOMA CITY, negative

Port broadside view of M.V. TACOMA CITY at Cardiff Docks.

M.V. TACOMA CITY. Bulk carrier built 1972 by Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd, Govan (with 8-cylinder diesel engine by Harland & Wolff, Belfast) as TACOMA CITY for Reardon Smith Line Ltd ( Reardon-Smith Navigation Co. Ltd.), Cardiff. In 1985 – Sold to a Greek owner and renamed BOUGAINVILLE. 1986 – Sold to a Cypriot owner and renamed ROSEBUD. 1989 – Sold to Sea Justice SA,Piraeus, and renamed ROSALEEN M. (Gibraltar flag). 1991 – Sold to Hellenic Lines, Greece, and renamed PETALOUDA, managed by Sea Justice SA. 1992 – Sold to Zenovar Marine, Cyprus, and renamed MACFORCE. 1994 – Renamed FORCE (same owner). 1995 – Sold to Gokar Denizcilik Ticaret, Turkey, and renamed GOKAR. 1998 – Renamed GOK - same owners – but flagged at St.Vincent & The Grenadines ready for scrapping. She was abandoned at Gadani Beach on 9 June 1998, and broken up by Tariq Sultan & Co., Pakistan.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

79.76I/4418

Creation/Production

Hansen, Leslie W.
Date: 1972 (circa)

Acquisition

Purchase, 20/9/1979

Measurements

Length (mm): 60
Width (mm): 87

Techniques

film negative (black & white)
film negative
negative

Material

film (photographic)

Location

In store
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