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Starboard broadside view of Liberty Ship S.S. DAY BEAM at Cardiff Docks.

The Claymore Shipping Co. Ltd. was established in 1919 by Charles Leigh Clay, father of the famous Glamorganshire off-spin bowler, J. C. Clay. In 1947 the company acquired the Liberty ship Samdonard, which they re-named Daybeam. Seen here in the Queen Alexandra Dock in 1950, her blue funnel with two yellow bands reflected the tie colours of the Glamorganshire Cricket Club. The Daybeam was sold to Panamanian owners in 1952 and was eventually cut up at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1968.

Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.

Built 1944 as SAMDONARD by Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, engine by General Machinery Corp., Hamilton, Ohio, for MoWT managed by McCowan & Gross Ltd., London. 1947 – Sold to Claymore Shipping Co., Cardiff, and renamed DAYBEAM. 1952 – Sold to Isla Malina Cia. Nav., Panama and renamed KRIONERI (managed by Capeside Steamship Co., London). 1952 – Sold to Extramar Panama SA, Panama, and renamed ALBA. Managed by Central American SS Agency, New York - Olympic Maritime SA, Monte Carlo from 1953 - Arisona Argentina SA, Buenos Aires from 1960. 1961 – Owned by Plamar SA, Panama, and renamed ALBAMAR (managed by Olympic Maritime SA). 1962 – Transferred to Albamar Cia. Uraguya de Nav. (same name) (managed by Ocean SS Agency, Montevideo). 1964 – Transferred to Extramar Panama SA, and renamed ALBARAN (managed by Central American SS Agency, New York). She was broken up at Taiwan in 1968.