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Starboard Broadside view of S.S. FORT CAPOT RIVER at Cardiff Docks, 1948.

(7128gt) : North Sands type cargo vessel built May 1943 by North Vancouver Ship Repairs Ltd., Vancouver, managed by Larrinaga Steamship Co.,Liverpool for MoWT. 1948 Sold to Acadia Overseas Freighters, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and renamed HALIGONIAN DUKE. 1950 Sold to Counties Ship Management Co., London, and renamed NOTTING HILL. 1957 Sold to Greek owners, Transcontinental Oil Transport, Monrovia, and renamed CEPHEUS. 1960 Sold to Hong Kong owners International Marine Transport, Panama, and renamed BRISA FELIZ. 1964 Sold to Panamerican Pacific Corp., Panama, and renamed ZAKIA. On 21 November 1964, on a passage from Wismar, North Germany, to Italy with a cargo of iron, she was in collision in fog off Cape St Vincent with the Greek tanker HYPERION, and sank the following morning while in the tow of two Spanish trawlers. (Mariners List)