Casgliadau Arlein

Port broadside view of S.S. MERIDIAN, c. 1948.

S.S. MERIDIAN (5561gt). Type “A” freighter built 1919 as CORSON by American International Shipbuilding Corp., Hog Island, Pennsylvania for the United States Shipping Board. 1920 – Assigned to Export Steamship Corporation and by 1925, she had been purchased by them. She was renamed EXIRIA in 1928. 1941 – Renamed EXCHESTER (same owners, but restyled American Export Lines Incorporated from 1936). 1946 – Renamed EXMOOR (same owner). 1946 – Sold to Parry Navigation Company Inc., New York, and renamed ESTHER. 1947 – Sold to Montijo Company, Panama, and renamed MERIDIAN. She was broken up in 1953.