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¾ Port bow view of S.S. AMERICAN PRODUCER entering Cardiff Docks.

The 8,228 gross ton American Producer was an example of another standard American type, the 'C2'. Built at Oakland, California in 1943, she was owned by the prominent American shipping firm, United States Lines of New York, that also owned the crack American passenger liners America and United States. She is seen here arriving at Cardiff in the late 1950s. (Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993).

S.S. AMERICAN PRODUCER. Laid down July 1942 as S.S. TWILIGHT but completed by Moore Dry Dock Co., Oakland, California, and commissioned as U.S.S. ORMSBY in 1943. 1946 – Decommissioned and transferred to the US War Shipping Administration. 1947 – Sold to United States Lines and renamed AMERICAN PRODUCER. In March 1969, she was damaged when she collided with a pier at San Francisco while sailing for Vietnam with a cargo of bombs. Because of this, she was broken up at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in July of that year.