Casgliadau Arlein

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).