Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Certificate of discharge to Capt. B.T. Morris
Black print on cream paper with hand written details in black ink. Certificate of discharge belonging to Captain B.T. Morris discharged from HOLDERNESS at Hull, 17 June 1895.
Built 1920 as MAINDY TOWER by Rennie, Ritchie & Newport Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Wivenhoe, Essex, (with an engine by Plenty & Son, of Newbury), for Jenkins, Richards & Evans Ltd., Cardiff. 1925 – Sold to Geddes & Couper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and renamed GLEDBURN. 1936 – Sold to Kingdon Steamship Co.Ltd. (T.H. Donking & Sons), Middlesbrough, and renamed GRANGETOFT. 1955 – Sold to Holderness Steamship Co. Ltd., Hull, and renamed HOLDERNESS. She became wrecked on the Sow & Pigs Rocks, near Blyth, on 11 March 1959 while bound for Londonderry with a cargo of coal.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
80.97I/41
Acquisition
Donation, 30/6/1980
Measurements
Length
(mm): 155
Width
(mm): 210
Material
paper
Location
In store
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