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S.S. QUEEN OLGA, glass negative
Starboard broadside view of S.S. QUEEN OLGA at Cardiff Docks, c.1936.
ss QUEEN OLGA (5242 gt) : Built 1919 by Caird & Company, Greenock, as WAR ANCHUSA for the Shipping Controller, London but was immediately bought by J.Temperley & Co. and renamed BEMBRIDGE. 1924 : Purchased by Thomas Dunlop & Sons (Queen Line) and renamed QUEEN OLGA. 1937 : Sold to Severn S.S. Co., and renamed SEVERN LEIGH, and under that name she was torpedoed and sunk by U.37 in 1940 with the loss of 33 lives.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
79.76I/77
Creation/Production
Hansen, Leslie W.
Date: 1936 (circa)
Acquisition
Purchase, 20/9/1979
Measurements
Length
(mm): 120
Width
(mm): 164
Techniques
gelatin dry plate glass negative
glass negative
negative
Material
glass
Location
In store
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