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
Owned by Morel Bros Shipping
Built in 1924 by Northumberland Shipbuilding on the Tyne.
Sunk by U-Boats in 1942 on voyage from Immingham to Canada in ballast with 2 casualties of the 4 crew onboard. The Master, Herbert V B Morden, was made a prisoner of War
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.
A general cargo ship built in 1925 William Gray & Co West Hartlepool and owned by John Cory & Sons Ltd,
On the 19th October 1940 when on route from New York for Greenock and Leith in Convoy HX-79 and carrying a cargo of steel billets, scrap iron and aircraft when she was torpedoed by German submarine U-46 and sunk about 90 miles Sw of Rockall. 29 crew members and 1 gunner lost from a total crew of 36.
Built in USA as Liberty Ship Samindoro in 1944. The name was changed to Sandsend in in 1947 and operated by the same company Rowland and Marwood's Stream Ship Company until 1967 when she went to the breakers.
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)
