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S.S. AMSTERDAM, negative
¾ Port bow view of destroyer S.S. AMSTERDAM at Cardiff Docks. Tug LOWGARTH also in image.
S.S. AMSTERDAM. Laid down in March 1955 by Netherlands Dock & Shipbuilding Company, Amsterdam. She was completed in 1958 and commissioned into the Dutch Navy on 10th April of that year - decommissioned in 1980. She was powered by two steam turbines, and carried a complement of 284 crew. 1980 – Sold to the Peruvian Navy in May, and renamed B.A.P. VILLAR (Pennant No. DM-77). She was broken up in 1991.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
79.76I/3453
Historical Associations
Association Type: place name
Creation/Production
Hansen, Leslie W.
Acquisition
Purchase, 20/9/1979
Measurements
Length
(mm): 60
Width
(mm): 87
Techniques
film negative (black & white)
film negative
negative
Material
film (photographic)
Location
In store
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