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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Mounted photographs of the Whaling Factory Ship TAFELBERG showing the two sections of the ship after she was split by a mine in 1942, their repair and joining together again in Cardiff Dry Dock and Pontoon Company.
TAFELBERY (whale factory ship). Launched 1930. 28 January 1941 she was damaged by a mine three miles south of Barry and beached at Porthkerry. 1943 renamed EMPIRE HERITAGE. 8 September 1944 she was torpedoed and sunk by U-Boat U482, 43 miles north west of Londonderry. All 113 people on board died.
