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Photo of SS Duke of Sparta

General cargo ship built in 1940 by William Gray & Co in West Hartlepool.
As SS Aquila was bombed and sunk in 1958 of Indonesia as part of a CIA backed operation by rebels.

Photo of SS St Julien

Seen here on a pontoon in Cardiff.
Built as a passenger ferry on Clydebank in 1925 for GWR for cross channel service Weymouth- Channel Islands.
Used as a hospital ship in WWll (No.29)

Photo of MV Treloske

General cargo ship built at Doxford's yard in Sunderland for Hain Steamship Co. Wrecked in 1968

Photo of SS John G Whittier

A WWll Liberty ship built in 1942 and named after an American Quaker poet.

Photo of MV Naticina

Maltese registered oil tanker off Penarth Head

Photo of SS Fort Jasper

A WWll Fort type cargo ship built in North Vancouver, Canada as part of an emergency shipbuilding programme. Broken up in 1959.

Swedish registered general cargo ship.
Built as a Fort class WWll cargo ship and originally called Fort Rouille.
On July 1st, 1960, while on passage from Colombo to Mormugao in ballast struck rocks off Mormugao, Goa and broke in two. She was a total loss.