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S.S. WILLIAM H JACKSON, glass negative
Hansen, Leslie W.
(photographer)
Starboard broadside view of S.S. WILLIAM H. JACKSON, Cardiff Docks, c.1946.
The ship that won the war; one of the 2,710 Liberty ships built in the USA between 1941 and, 1945 to replace Allied shipping losses. Built at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyard, Baltimore, in 1943, the William H. Jackson was sold to Greek owners in 1947 and eventually cut up at Shanghai in December 1968. These 7,176 gross ton vessels were built to a design based upon the Sunderland-built steamer Dorington Court of 1939. Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
79.76I/930
Historical Associations
Association Type: Place name
Place: Cardiff Docks
Creation/Production
Acquisition
purchase, 20/9/1979
Measurements
Length
(mm): 81
Width
(mm): 107
Material
Glass
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