Casgliadau Arlein

Port broadside view of S.S. AMPLEFORTH, about 1936.

The Cravos family were natives of Trieste where they owned a number of sailing vessels. They later moved to Cardiff, becoming shipowners at the port in 1914. The 4,576 gross ton steamer Ampleforth was built at Stockton-on-Tees in 1929 as Glofield for Humphries & Co. of Cardiff and was bought by Cravos in 1932. Seen here arriving at Cardiff, c.1936, she was torpedoed and sunk in the north Atlantic on 18 August 1940. (Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993).

S.S. AMPLEFORTH (4576 gt). Built at Stockton-on-Tees in 1929 as GLOFIELD for Humphries & Co. of Cardiff and was bought by Cravos in 1932. Torpedoed and sunk by U-101 west of the Hebrides at 0154 on 18 August 1940. She was a straggler from Convoy OA-199. Nine crew members were lost. The master and 28 other survivors were rescued by the destroyer HMS WARWICK and taken to Liverpool.