Casgliadau Arlein

Black and white photograph in folder showing lauch of M.V. VICTORIA CITY, Doxford's Yard Sunderland, 9 December 1954. Left to right are Alan Reardon Smith, unknown, Winifred Reardon Smith, unknown, unknown.

The M.V. VICTORIA CITY was a steel motor vessel of 6162 gross tons, completed in 1955 by Sir William Doxford & Sons, Pallion Yard, Sunderland, for Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons, Cardiff. On 14 December 1955, whilst on her maiden voyage from Hamburg to Hampton Roads with general cargo, she collided with the Italian oil tanker Valentina Bibolini off the Dutch coast, and sank. All hands were saved.