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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Starboard broadside view of S.S. PACIFIC NOMAD at Cardiff Docks.
Launched December 1943 as BRONSON ALCOTT by New England Shipbuilding Corp., South Portland, Maine (engine by Vulcan Ironworks, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania), but completed 1944 as SAMAVON for MoWT, managed by Prince Line, London. 1947 – Sold to Furness Withy & Co., London and renamed PACIFIC NOMAD. 1954 – Sold to Panama Steamship Co., Monrovia, and renamed NIKOLOS under the Liberian flag and managed by S G Embiricos, London. 1960 – Sold to Diana Maritime Corp., (Liberian flag), and renamed STAMATIS, managed by Frinton Shipbrokers, London. 1964 – Management transferred to Pegasus Ocean Services Ltd., London. Same name and ownership. She was blown ashore and wrecked near Madras during a typhoon in November 1966 and was broken up in situ. (mariners-list)
