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Bow view of S.S. CAMPUS at Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff, about 1947.

S.S. CAMPUS (3667gt). Built in 1925 by Northumberland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Newcastle-Upon-Tyne for W.H. Seager & Co. Ltd., Cardiff. She replaced CAMPUS (1) which had been sold in 1919. She found herself in difficulties in February 1935, her crew of 29 needing the assistance of the Cromer lifeboat. CAMPUS was the only one of Seager’s fleet of five ships to survive WW2. 1946 : Sold to Radon Navigation Co., Ltd., London, and renamed RADMAR (managed by A.S.T. Halford of London). On 12th January 1952, while leaving the Hook of Holland with a load of coal, under Captain Frank Stockton, she ran aground, and although being refloated a few weeks later, was deemed a constructive loss. She was broken up at Zelzate, Belgium on the 27th May 1952.