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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Starboard broadside view of S.S. NICOLAS, at Cardiff Docks, c.1948.
S.S. NICOLAS (7021gt). Built 1943 as Liberty ship WILLIAM N. BYERS by Permanente Metals Corporation (Shipbuilding Division), Richmond, California, with engine by Willamette Iron & Steel Corp., Portland, Oregon, for the US War Shipping Administration (managed by Isthmian Steamship Co., New York). 1947 Sold to Pateras & Mavrophilippas, Athens, Greece (managed by Lyras Bros., London), and renamed NICOLAS. 1952 Ownership transferred to Ch. Pateras, Athens, (same management). She was broken up at Vado, Italy, in 1964.
