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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Photograph of a painting by W. Edgar showing a bow view of the four masted barque COLONIAL EMPIRE and tug passing Sydney Head, 1905.
Broken glass negative.
COLONIAL EMPIRE. Built 1902 by John Reid & Co. Ltd., Glasgow, for the Empire Line (George Duncan & Co) London. She ran aground and was wrecked at Thunderbolt Reef, Algoa Bay, South Africa, in September 1917 while carrying kerosene for the Anglo-American Oil Company.