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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Starboard broadside view of S.S. MOIDART, c.1936.
ss MOIDART (1262gt) : Built 1922 as HILLGLEN by Campbeltown Shipbuilding Co Ltd., Campbeltown (triple-expansion engine by Ross & Duncan, Glasgow) for Portsmouth Steamship Co., (McNeil & Jones), Cardiff. 1928 - Sold to Samuel Jackson, Cardiff (no change of name). She appears at some point to have been stranded, and then sold to Grangemouth Dockyard Co. 1929 - Sold to Western Navigation Co Ltd., Cardiff and renamed MOIDART, managed by William S. Scott & Co. On the 29th July 1940, she struck a mine and sunk while en route from Greenhithe to Newcastle with a cargo of cement. (ref : Lloyds register 1940-41) ( wrecksite.eu)
