Casgliadau Arlein

Starboard broadside view of S.S. STRANRAER, Cardiff Docks, 1948.

S.S. BARON STRANRAER (3668gt). Built 1929 by Lithgow’s Ltd., Port Glasgow (T3-cylinder engine by David Rowan & Co., Glasgow) for H. Hogarth & Sons, Ardrossan. 1950 – Sold to Heinrich Schmidt GMbH, Germany and renamed VENUS. 1957 – Sold to Omeros Shipping Co., Liberia, and renamed ADELFOTIS II. Transferred to the firm’s Lebanon office in 1961. She lost her steering while heading for the Tyne in a gale on 20 January 1963. She hit the Black Midden Rocks and beached on the South Shields foreshore, where she was broken up in situ.