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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
3/4 Port Bow view of S.S. BRIGHTWINGS, Cardiff Docks c. 1936
ss BRIGHT WINGS (4830 gt) : Built 1910 by William Hamilton & Co, Glasgow as MIDDLEHAM CASTLE (2) for Lancashire Shipping Co (James Chambers & Sons), Liverpool. In December 1917, she heavily damaged following an explosion at Halifax, Nova Scotia and repaired at New York. She was sold in 1932 to Vogemann's Transport, Panama and renamed DELIA. 1934 - Sold to Wing Line Ltd. (of London and Cardiff) and renamed BRIGHT WINGS 1939 - Sold to F. Grauds, Latvia and renamed EVEROJA. On the 3rd November 1941 while en route from St John to Dublin carrying 6401 tons of wheat, she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-203 near Belle Isle, Newfoundland. Her crew of 42 were all saved.
