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S.S. CLINTONIA, glass negative
Starboard broadsideview of S.S. CLINTONIA in Cardiff Docks, c.1948.
ss CLINTONIA (6978gt) : Built 1941 by Lithgows Ltd., Port Glasgow as EMPIRE BAFFIN for the Ministry of War Transport (MOWT). She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1943, converted into a cable-laying ship for Operation Pluto and renamed HMS SANCROFT. Returned to MOWT in 1946, she briefly regained her original name before being bought by the Stag Line of North Shields later the same year and renamed CLINTONIA (the fifth ship of that company to bear that name). In December 1959, the vessel was sold to Alcestis Shipping Co. S.A., Greece and renamed APSIS, managed by Faros Shipping Co Ltd, London. She was sold for scrap in 1963 arriving at Yokosuka, Japan in the December for breaking.