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S.S. RIVERVILLE, glass negative
Starboard broadside view of S.S. RIVERVILLE entering Cardiff Docks.
Built 1911 as LORD BACON by G. Brown & Co., Garvel Yard, Greenock, with 2-cylinder engine by Gauldie, Gillespie & Co., Glasgow, for John Bacon Ltd., Liverpool. 1913 – Sold to John S Monks and renamed ELIZABETTA. She was damaged by the German submarine UB 65 on 8th May 1918 when she was “assaulted by gunfire” and 5 crew members taken prisoner while en route from Dublin to Cardiff. 1934 – Renamed RIVERVILLE (same owner). She ran ashore at Walney Island, Lancashire on the 16th February 1935 during a storm. All seven crew were rescued by breeches buoy, but the vessel was pulled off by a tug on the next high tide andcontinued its voyage unscathed. She was broken up by J. Edgar Rees & Co. Ltd., at Lanelli in December 1952. (Tony Allen Wrecksite)(clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=2999)