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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Launch party of the M.V. FRESNO CITY, Doxford shipyard, Sunderland, 16 October 1929. Alan Reardon-Smith extreme right, Sir William Reardon-Smith at centre in bowler hat, Lady Smith seventh from left, and Miss Grace Smith (her youngest daughter) eighth from left.
M.V. FRESNO CITY. Built 1945 as EMPIRE SINGAPORE by William Doxford & Sons Ltd., Sunderland, for MoWT, managed by William Reardon Smith & Sons Ltd., Cardiff. 1946 – Sold to Reardon Smith Line Ltd., and renamed FRESNO CITY. 1964 – Sold to Vergocean Steamship Co Ltd ., and renamed SEA CAPTAIN. She was broken up in China in 1970.