Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
S.S. SOUTH WALES, glass negative
Starboard broadside view of S.S. SOUTH WALES and tug boat, about 1936.
The South Wales was a 5,619 gross ton steamer built at Sunderland in 1929 for Gibbs & Co. of Cardiff. The company had been founded in 1906, but moved its offices to Newport in 1950. They later went on to establish Welsh Ore Carriers in association with London & Overseas Freighters Ltd. of London. The South Wales was wrecked in the Belle Isle Strait off Newfoundland on 26 September 1941. Gibbs & Co. ceased trading as shipowners in 1989. (Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993).
S.S. SOUTH WALES (2) (5619gt). Built 1929 by Bartram & Sons Ltd., Sunderland (engine by J. Dickenson & Sons, Ltd, Sunderland), for West Wales Steamship Co. Ltd., managed by Gibbs & Co, Cardiff . She was grounded on rocks at Point Armour in Belle Isle Strait, Newfoundland, after a collision with ss EVEROJA (or EUROJA) on 26th September 1941 while she was in convoy in thick fog, and was declared a total loss. The EVEROJA was torpedoed and sunk on 3 November, just a week later.