These cookies are absolutely essential for our website to function properly.
We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs.
These cookies may be set by third party websites and do things like measure how you view YouTube videos.
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Starboard broadside view of S.S. FORT LA TRAITE, 11 April 1947.
S.S. FORT LA TRAITE (7134gt). North Sands type built December 1942 by West Coast Shipbuilders Ltd., Vancouver, for MoWT (managed by Evan Thomas & Radcliffe Ltd., Cardiff). 1947 – Returned to the US Maritime Commission. 1948 – Sold to “Italnavi” Soc di Nav per Azioni,Genoa, and renamed ITALSOLE. 1949 – Converted to diesel and used as a car carrier for the Fiat car company. 1965 – Sold to Lloyd’s Africa Ltd., Monrovia, and renamed FREEPORT. She was broken up at Faslane in 1972. (Source: fortships.tripod.com/fleetlist)
