Casgliadau Arlein

Black card box with removeable lid (with slip of pink paper with word ENGINE stuck to it) containing a pack of blank diagram papers and also many filled in for S.S. PONTYPRIDD voyages from Villa ? to Bayonne? on 25th May 1908 and from P? to Nantes on 29th March and from Cardiff to Cadiz on 11th May 1908.

S.S. PONTYPRIDD. Built 1924 by Northumberland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd, Newcastle for Thomas Morel & Co. On 11 June 1942, she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-94 while en route from Immingham to Sydney in ballast, and a straggler in Convoy ONS-100. Two crew were lost. The master was taken prisoner by U-569 and was taken to POW camp Milag Nord. 42 crew members and three gunners were picked up by HMCS CHAMBLY and landed at St Johns.