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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Starboard broadside view of S.S. SKELDERGATE, Cardiff Docks, c.1946.
ss SKELDERGATE (4251gt) : Completed 1930 by Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd., Burntisland, for Turnbull, Scott & Co., London. She survived World War 2 unscathed, but on 17th November, 1950, she was carrying wheat from Wallaroo, South Australia, to Calcutta when a cyclone drove her ashore at False Bay in the Bay of Bengal, where she was wrecked.