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S.S. WILLIAM H JACKSON, glass negative
Starboard broadside view of S.S. WILLIAM H. JACKSON, Cardiff Docks, c.1946.
The ship that won the war; one of the 2,710 Liberty ships built in the USA between 1941 and, 1945 to replace Allied shipping losses. Built at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyard, Baltimore, in 1943, the William H. Jackson was sold to Greek owners in 1947 and eventually cut up at Shanghai in December 1968. These 7,176 gross ton vessels were built to a design based upon the Sunderland-built steamer Dorington Court of 1939.
Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.
ss WILLIAM H. JACKSON (7176gt) : Built 1943 at Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore. December 1946 - bought by Sociedad Armadora Aristomenis, Honduras and renamed ARISTOCRATIS, she grounded in fog on Santa Rosa Island on 1 December 1949 while enroute to Keelung, Taiwan (formerly Formosa) with a cargo of coal, but was pulled free at high tide the following day. 1951 - Renamed SAN ROQUE and later registered as AGHIIOS SPYRIDON and SAN SPYRIDON. The vessel was scrapped at Shanghai in December 1968.