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S.S. BALA (painting)
Adam, Marie-Edouard (dates - (1880 - 1940))
Port view of the S.S. BALA in rough seas. Signed and dated bottom right. Framed.
The original ship S.S. BALA was completed by the order of Evan Thomas, Radcliffe and Co., Cardiff by William Gray and Co. of West Hartlepool in 1884. She was sold in 1903 to the Glanhowny Steamship Co. of Cardiff and re-named S.S. GLANHOWNY after the home of one of her new owners, Captain Thomas Owen of Aberporth, Dyfed. She was lost in a collision with a German steamer at Antwerp in May 1907.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
62.229/3
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Evan Thomas, Radcliffe & Co.
Association Type: shipping company
Date: 1884
Associated Person/Body: Glanhowny Steamship Co.
Association Type: shipping company
Date: 1903
Creation/Production
Adam, Marie-Edouard
Acquisition
Donation, 4/7/1962
Measurements
Length
(mm): 700
Width
(mm): 991
Techniques
oil on canvas
painting and drawing
Material
canvas
Location
In store
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