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Newspaper cutting entitled - '60 Saved as Cardiff Ship Sinks, Terrible Crash off Dutch Island, She Was Built Only This Year', South Wales Echo, December 14, 1955. The Ship that sank was the VICTORIA CITY owned by the Reardon Smith Line.

The M.V. VICTORIA CITY was a steel motor vessel of 6162 gross tons, completed in 1955 by Sir William Doxford & Sons, Pallion Yard, Sunderland, for Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons, Cardiff. On 14 December 1955, whilst on her maiden voyage from Hamburg to Hampton Roads with general cargo, she collided with the Italian oil tanker Valentina Bibolini off the Dutch coast, and sank. All hands were saved.