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S.S. EMPIRE TRAIL, glass negative
Port Broadside view of S.S. EMPIRE TRAIL, at Cardiff Dock, 17 April 1947.
ss. EMPIRE TRAIL (7038gt) : Built 1943 by Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd., Sunderland for MoWT (managed by Crest Shipping Co). 1947 – Sold to Steamship Mombasa Co. Ltd., and renamed TRAIL (managed by Maclay & Macintyre Ltd). 1951 – Sold to Maclay & McIntyre Ltd., and renamed LOCH MADDY. 1960 – Sold to Panamanian Oriental Steamship Corp., and renamed OCEAN GLORY (managed by Wheelock, Marden & Co., Hong Kong). She was laid up on 28th August 1962 at Hong Kong with a damaged propeller, but broke loose from her berth during a typhoon on 2nd September, and collided with the 7058gt steamship GROSVENOR NAVIGATOR. She was sold for breaking up at Japan in 1963.