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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Starboard broadside view of S.S. BERYLSTONE at Cardiff Docks.
Launched December 1944 and completed March 1945 as EMPIRE BARBADOS by William Gray & Co Ltd., West Hartlepool, for MoWT, managed intitially by Constantine Shipping Co., Middlesbrough, then by Rodney Steamship Co., London, from 1946. 1948 – Sold to Rodney Steamship Co Ltd., and renamed TENNYSON, managed by Anglo-Danubian Shipping Co Ltd., London. 1950 – Sold to T. Stone (Shipping) Ltd., and renamed BERYLSTONE, managed by Stone & Rolfe Ltd., Swansea. 1960 – Sold to Compagnia Navigazione Zannis, and renamed MANTICOS, managed by A. Halcoussis & Co., Greece. She sprung a leak 210 nautical miles south of Dakar, Senegal on 8th October 1963. Despite assistance from a tug with pumping out the vessel, she sank on the 22nd October. (wikipedia)
