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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Discharging pitwood from S.S. FORT HUDSON'S HOPE into a railway train at No.2 Dock, Barry.
S.S. FORT HUDSON’S HOPE (7129gt). North Sands type vessel built 1942 by Victoria Machinery Depot Co., Victoria B.C., (engine by Dominion Engineering Works, Montreal) for USWSA, managed by Glen & Co., Glasgow, for MoWT. 1947 – Returned to the US Maritime Comission. 1948 – Sold to “Italia” Soc per Azioni di Nav, Genoa, and renamed VEGA. 1950 – Transferred to “Italnavi” Soc di Nav per Azioni, Genoa, as STEAMER-51, then renamed ITALVEGA. She was re-engined as a motorship in 1951. 1966 – Sold to Lloyd’s Africa Ltd., Monrovia, and renamed BELLPORT. She was broken up at Faslane in 1972.
