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M.V. VICTORIA CITY, photograph
Black and white photograph in folder showing lauch of M.V. VICTORIA CITY, Doxford's Yard Sunderland, 9 December 1954. Left to right are Alan Reardon Smith, unknown, Winifred Reardon Smith, unknown, unknown.
The M.V. VICTORIA CITY was a steel motor vessel of 6162 gross tons, completed in 1955 by Sir William Doxford & Sons, Pallion Yard, Sunderland, for Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons, Cardiff. On 14 December 1955, whilst on her maiden voyage from Hamburg to Hampton Roads with general cargo, she collided with the Italian oil tanker Valentina Bibolini off the Dutch coast, and sank. All hands were saved.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2011.19/24
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Reardon Smith Line
Association Type: shipping company
Date: 09/12/1954
Acquisition
Old stock, 19/4/2011
Measurements
Length
(mm): 194
Width
(mm): 248
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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