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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Port broadside view of S.S. CLAN SUTHERLAND at Newport Docks.
Built 1950 by Greenock Dockyard Co. Ltd., Greenock, for the Clan Line. 1971 – Sold to China National Machinery Import & Export Corp., China. She arrived at Hsinkang on 10th November for breaking up. (ref : - theshipslist.com / clanline) The Clan Line company had several ‘cadet’ ships - cargo ships with the accomodation for 12 passengers converted to take cadets and a Training Officer to sea. CLAN SUTHERLAND had also been built with a specialised heavy-lift ‘Stulken’ derrick, with which she could lift 165-tonne weights, (locomotives and cracking-plants for refineries were the most common cargoes), apart from cargo holds for general cargo.
