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  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
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  Photo of SS Rita

  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.
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  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.
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  Photo of an unnamed tanker

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  Photo of MV Naticina

  Maltese registered oil tanker off Penarth Head
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  Photo of SS John G Whittier

  A WWll Liberty ship built in 1942 and named after an American Quaker poet.
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  Photo of MV Treloske

  General cargo ship built at Doxford's yard in Sunderland for Hain Steamship Co. Wrecked in 1968
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  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)
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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.
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  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
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  Photo of MV Marvic

  Coaster
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  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
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  Photo of SS Margol

  Swedish registered general ship seen here unloading deck cargo
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  Photo of SS Kimball Harlow

  General cargo ship seen here with deck cargo of pit props
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  Photo of SS Loch Ranza

  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
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  Photo of SS Temple Yard

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