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S.S. BARON STRANRAER, glass negative
Starboard broadside view of S.S. STRANRAER, Cardiff Docks, 1948.
S.S. BARON STRANRAER (3668gt). Built 1929 by Lithgow’s Ltd., Port Glasgow (T3-cylinder engine by David Rowan & Co., Glasgow) for H. Hogarth & Sons, Ardrossan. 1950 – Sold to Heinrich Schmidt GMbH, Germany and renamed VENUS. 1957 – Sold to Omeros Shipping Co., Liberia, and renamed ADELFOTIS II. Transferred to the firm’s Lebanon office in 1961. She lost her steering while heading for the Tyne in a gale on 20 January 1963. She hit the Black Midden Rocks and beached on the South Shields foreshore, where she was broken up in situ.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
79.76I/2154
Measurements
Length
(mm): 80
Width
(mm): 105
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