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S.S. LLANDAFF, photograph
View of the S.S. LLANDAFF on the rocks near Lands End.
pre 1937 Built 1937 as LLANDAFF for Evan Thomas, Radcliffe & Co., Cardiff, by Bartram & Sons Ltd., Sunderland. She survived being bombed by enemy aircraft at the entrance to Kola Inlet, Russia, in August 1943 1951 – Sold to K.G. Bornhofen Reederei of Hamburg, and renamed MAX BORNHOFEN. 1959 – Sold to San Anastassias Cia Ltd., Greece, and renamed PILASTASSIOS. Managed by E.A. Karavias, but probably registered in Costa Rica. She ran aground and was wrecked at Esbjerg Roads, Denmark on 20th February 1959 while carrying cement from Alborg to Jeddah. She was later salvaged, and arrived at Ghent, Belgium in July 1959 to be broken up.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2000.37
Historical Associations
Association Type: place name
Date: 1899
Creation/Production
Gibson, James
(photographer)
Acquisition
Collected officially, 11/2/2000
Measurements
Length
(mm): 157
Width
(mm): 205
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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