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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Starboard broadside view of S.S. RONALD M. SCOBIE, Cardiff Docks, 1948.
RONALD M. SCOBIE (7331gt) : Built 1945 as EMPIRE PROSPECT by Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd., Newcastle –upon-Tyne for MoWT., managed by Evan Thomas, Radcliffe & Co., Cardiff. 1947 – Sold to Panmarine Shipping Co., London and renamed RONALD M. SCOBIE. 1952 – Sold to Goulandris Brothers Ltd, London, 1954 – Sold to Bahia Salinas Cia. Nav., Panama, and renamed PLOVER. 1965 – Sold to Kowloon Carriers Inc., and renamed KOWLOON VENTURE managed by Wah Kwong & Co (Hong Kong) Ltd. She was broken up at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1969. (ref : - wikipedia/empire ships)(mariners-list/empire ships)