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M.V. PORT VINDEX, negative
Port bow view of M.V. PORT VINDEX at Cardiff Docks.
Laid down as a cargo ship in 1942 by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, but requisitioned by the Admiralty whle still on the stocks and completed in 1943 as a Nairana-class escort aircraft carrier HMS VINDEX (pennant no.D15). In this form she carried a complementof 700 crew. 1947 – Decommissioned and reconstructed for commercial use, she was returned to the Port Line and renamed PORT VINDEX as a reflection of her wartime service – there is no such port as Port Vindex. She was broken up at Taiwan in 1971.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
79.76I/4230
Creation/Production
Hansen, Leslie W.
Date: 1964 (circa)
Acquisition
Purchase, 20/9/1979
Measurements
Length
(mm): 60
Width
(mm): 87
Techniques
film negative (black & white)
film negative
negative
Material
film (photographic)
Location
In store
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