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S.S. MELROSE ABBEY, photograph
Launch party of the S.S. MELROSE ABBEY, 20 May 1936 at William Gray shipyard, West Hartlepool. Photographers details embossed bottom right, and stamped on back.
S.S. MELROSE ABBEY (6) (2473 tons). Built 1936. She was torpedoed in December 1942.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
1997.89/16
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Abbey Line
Association Type: shipping company
Date: 1936
Associated Person/Body: William Gray & Co. Ltd.
Association Type: ship builder
Date: 1936
Creation/Production
Frank & Sons
Acquisition
Donation, 31/5/1997
Measurements
Length
(mm): 271
Width
(mm): 356
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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