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Photo of unidentified steamship

Photo of MV Rogue River

Type T2 tanker built in Alabama USA in 1944 for duty in WWll.
Bought by British Tankers - later BP tankers in 1947 and sold on in 1959

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.

Photo of MV Naticina

Maltese registered oil tanker off Penarth Head

Photo of SS John G Whittier

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

Photo of MV Treloske

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

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 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 Fylingdale

General cargo ship seen here unloading timber.
Built in 1924 by J. L. Thompson & Sons Ltd. on Wearside. wrecked in 1962

Photo of SS Nicolas

WWll Liberty ship built as William N Byers in 1943 in Richmond California. At end of war sold to Greek owners and renamed.
Broken up in 1964

Photo of SS Margol

Swedish registered general ship seen here unloading deck cargo

Photo of SS Kimball Harlow

General cargo ship seen here with deck cargo of pit props

General cargo ship.
Built as Empire Swordsman in 1949 by William Hamilton & Co Ltd, Port Glasgow as part of the Ministry of War Transport shipbuilding programme to replace those ships lost to enemy action in WWll

Photo of SS Temple Yard

General cargo ship built in 1937 by William Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow.

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