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S.S. AXIOS, glass negative
3/4 Port bow view of the S.S. Axios with Watermans boat and tug, Penarth Head c. 1936
Type B two-deck dry cargo ship laid down as WAR TAPIR but completed 1919 by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne, for F. Leyland & Co., Liverpool as ss BARBADIAN. 1933 Sold to N.G. Livanos, Chios, and renamed AXIOS. She became stranded off Sandheads in the River Hooghli, India, on 28 March 1944, and was declared a total loss. (atlantictransportline.us)(mariners-l.co.uk)(wrecksite.eu)
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
79.76I/394
Creation/Production
Hansen, Leslie W.
Date: 1936-1937
Acquisition
Purchase, 20/9/1979
Measurements
Length
(mm): 120
Width
(mm): 164
Techniques
gelatin dry plate glass negative
glass negative
negative
Material
glass
Location
In store
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