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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Starboard broadside view of S.S. FORT MATANZAS, 16 December 1947.
FORT MATANZAS (10,448gt) : T2-SE-A1 tanker built 1944 by The Kaiser Company, Portland, Oregon, for the US War Shipping Administration (later, the US Maritime Commission). 1948 – Sold to Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd., London, and renamed TROCHISCUS. 1955 – Owners restyled Shell Petroleum Co Ltd. (same name). 1960 – Transferred to Shell Tankers Ltd., London. She was broken up at Chiap Hua Manufactory Co. Ltd., Hong Kong in 1961.
