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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
3/4 starboard bow view of S.S. GRELROSA, about 1936.
A fine study of the 4,574 gross ton steamer Grelrosa, built at Newcastle in 1914, arriving at Cardiff with a cargo of pit wood, c. 1936. This vessel was operated by Walter Gould, whose cousin, James C. Gould, built up a massive fleet during the boom following the First World War, only to crash to failure in 1925. Walter Gould's shipping company survived until 1960. (Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993).
S.S. GRELROSA (4574gt). Built 1914 by Northumberland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, for Furness, Withy & Co. as the MENDIP RANGE. 1923 : Sold to Anglo Celtic Shipping Co. Renamed ARCHMEL. 1935 : Sold to Cardigan Shipping Co., Cardiff. She was sunk by enemy aircraft 400 miles west of Malin Head on the 28 January 1941 with the loss of five lives.
