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Cargo Plans (notebook)
Black hardback cover with burghundy spine. Handwritten details in blue ink inside. Notebook of Cargo plans showing details of stowage on the vessels - S.S. BISLEY, S.S. ARCGOW, S.S. LORD BYRON, S.S. ENGLISH TRADER, S.S. WELSH TRADER.
S.S. LORD BYRON (4118gt). Built 1934 by Lithgows, Port Glasgow, (with engine by D. Rowan & Co, Glasgow) as ARCGOW for Arcgow Shipping Co. (managed by Isherwood Arcform Ships Ltd) London. 1936 - Sold to Norfolk Steamship Co., and renamed LORD BYRON. She was in collision with mv VESTVARD in 1942 while in a wartime convoy – the VESTVARD had been trying to change station. Another collision occurred in 1947 when she hit ss PENCARROW in the North Atlantic during heavy snow squalls. 1950 - renamed BELLATRIX. 1961 - renamed VINCENZO JACOMINO. She was broken up at Split in 1965.