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S.S. PENTIRE, glass negative
Starboard broadside view of S.S. PENTIRE at Cardiff Docks.
Launched 1943 as LYON G.TYLER by Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore (engine by General Machinery Corp., Hamilton, Ohio), but completed as SAMNEBRA and chartered to MoWT, managed by Cayzer, Irvine & Co., London. 1947 – Sold to R.B.Chellew Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Cardiff, and renamed PENTIRE, managed initially by F.C. Perman, London, and by Baden H. Roberts, London, from 1948. 1955 – Sold to Cia de Nav. Gaviota, Panama, and renamed CUACO, managed by Barber Steam Ship Lines, London. She was broken up at Hirao in 1963.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
79.76I/2668
Acquisition
Purchase, 20/9/1979
Measurements
Length
(mm): 81
Width
(mm): 106
Techniques
gelatin dry plate glass negative
glass negative
negative
Material
glass
Location
In store
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