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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Starboard Broadside view of S.S VIRAGO, at Cardiff Docks, c.1948.
(2582gt) : EC2-S-C1 type cargo ship built 1944 as ABIGAIL S. DUNIWAY by Oregon Shipbuilding Co., Portland, Oregon, for the USWSA, managed by Weyerhauser Steamship Co. 1946 – Transferred to the US Maritime Administration. 1947 – Sold to Compagnia Levante de Vapores S.A., Panama, and renamed VIRAGO. 1949 – Sold to Soc. Azioni Emanuele V. Parodi, Genoa, and renamed ANGELO PARODI. 1962 – Sold to Armosy Corp., and renamed ARMOSY, managed by Sturla Soc di Nav., Genoa. She was broken up in 1963.