Images of Industry
S.S. GLANHAFREN
artist unknown
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Date: circa 1895
Media: watercolour on paper
Size: 430 x 618 mm
Acquired: 1986; Purchase
Accession Number: 86.36I
This vessel was completed at South Shields in 1888 as HARPERLY for London owners. In 1890 she was bought by John Mathias & Sons of Aberystwyth, who operated her in the tramping trades out of Cardiff. She was wrecked off Cape Rizzuto,Italy on 14 Feb. 1905 whilst bound from Penarth to Venice with a cargo of coal.
Work not on display
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