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Starboard view of the DEVON CITY passing through the Suez Canal. Initialled by artist bottom right, undated.

M.V. DEVON CITY (2) (4928 gt). Built 1933 by Furness Shipbuilding Co., Middlesbrough (with a Doxford diesel engine) for the Reardon Smith Line. 1958 - Sold to Maritime & Industrial Corp., Monrovia nad renamed CINDERELLA. 1965 - Sold to Cia. Cheyenne Naviera SA, Panama (but registered in Monrovia). She ran aground 35 miles north of the Orange River on 28th August 1967 while en route from Phillipines to Rottererdam with a load of copra, and broke in two on the 30th.