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S.S. MONKLEIGH, glass negative
Three quarter Starboard Bow view of S.S. MONKLEIGH, 14 January 1948.
Date in catalogue is 14 January 1948 / Date on envelope is 14 November 1948.
(5203gt) : Built 1927 by R. Thompson & Sons Ltd., Sunderland (with engine by Richardson, Westgarth & Co. Ltd., Sunderland), for Tatem S.N. Co. Ltd., Cardiff. 1944 – Transferred to Atlantic Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd. 1947 – Sold to Dolphin Steamship Co. Ltd., and renamed IONIAN SEA (managed by Stathatos & Co). 1951 – Sold to Attica Shipping Co. SA, Panama, and renamed ATTICA (managed from 1954 by Faros Shipping Co. Ltd., London). She was broken up at Hong Kong in 1960. Many of Tatem’s ships were named after towns and villages in his native north Devon; the Monkleigh, built in 1927, was one such vessel.