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S.S. SOUTH WALES, glass negative
Port broadside view of S.S. SOUTH WALES, c.1936.
S.S. SOUTH WALES (2) (5619gt). Built 1929 by Bartram & Sons Ltd., Sunderland (engine by J. Dickenson & Sons, Ltd, Sunderland), for West Wales Steamship Co. Ltd., managed by Gibbs & Co, Cardiff . She was grounded on rocks at Point Armour in Belle Isle Strait, Newfoundland, after a collision with ss EVEROJA (or EUROJA) on 26th September 1941 while she was in convoy in thick fog, and was declared a total loss. The EVEROJA was torpedoed and sunk on 3 November, just a week later.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
79.76I/56
Measurements
Length
(mm): 120
Width
(mm): 164
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