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Shipshape in Sunderland, photograph
FRESNO CITY undergoing repairs at a Sunderland shipbuilding yard, 1961. Photographer's stamp on the reverse.
M.V. FRESNO CITY. Built 1945 as EMPIRE SINGAPORE by William Doxford & Sons Ltd., Sunderland, for MoWT, managed by William Reardon Smith & Sons Ltd., Cardiff. 1946 – Sold to Reardon Smith Line Ltd., and renamed FRESNO CITY. 1964 – Sold to Vergocean Steamship Co Ltd ., and renamed SEA CAPTAIN. She was broken up in China in 1970.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
1994.193/1083
Acquisition
Donation, 25/11/1994
Measurements
Length
(mm): 283
Width
(mm): 247
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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