Images of Industry
S.S. LLANGORSE
LUZZO, Giovanni
Date: 1921
Media: gouache on paper
Size: 469 x 667 mm
Acquired: 1986; Purchase
Accession Number: 86.13I/2
Starboard view of the S.S. LLANGORSE in rough sea. The SS Llangorse was a trunk-decked steamer built by Ropner and Sons of Stockton-on-Tees in 1904 for Evan Thomas, Radcliffe and Co. of.Cardiff. When built, she was named Clarissa Radcliffe after one of Henry Radcliffe’s daughters; she was re-named in 1917. Sold to Londonowners in 1924, she passed to Greek and Panamanian owners before being scrapped by Wards at Milford Haven in 1952.