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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
¾ Starboard bow view of S.S. AGIA VARVARA at Cardiff Docks.
Built 1904 by A. Rodger & Co., Port Glasgow, as CRAIGRONALD for Craig Line SS Co., Leith (managed by Russell & Co). 1911 – Sold to Elvidge & Morgan, Cardiff, and renamed GLYDWR. 1914 – Seized at Memel, East Prussia (now Lithuania), and used as a Kreigsmarine seaplane tender. 1920 – Sold to Quayside Shipping (Connell & Grace), Newcastle, and renamed AKENSIDE. 1921 – Sold to P.M. Los, Chios, and renamed MATHEOS. 1937 – Sold to Siglas & Partners, Piraeus, and renamed AGIA VARVARA. She was damaged after grounding in the Kerch Strait in August 1957, and laid up at Kynosoura. She was broken up Piraeus in 1959.
