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Starboard broadside view of S.S. CABO DEL AGUA, Cardiff Docks, 1948.

ss CABO DEL AGUA (4731gt) : Built 1912 as ss NORTHERN by J.L. Thompson & Sons, Sunderland for Century Shipping Co Ltd., managed by Harris & Dixon Ltd., London. 1916 – Sold to Cambrian Steam Navigation Co. (John Mathias) Aberystwyth and but retained her name. 1920 – Sold to Brown, Jenkinson & Co., London (same name). 1922 – Sold to French Line, Le Havre, and renamed SONORA(2). 1934 – Sold to J. Nikoforos, Piraeus, and renamed ARIADNE. 1938 – Sold to I.N.S.A., Genoa and renamed TROVATORE. She was laid up at Las Palmas from 1940. 1944 – Sold to Ybarra y Cia., Seville, and renamed CABO DEL AGUA. 1955 – Sold to Empresa Nacional Elcona, Seville, and renamed CASTILLO MANZANARES. She was broken up in 1964.