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Port Broadside view of S.S. FORT WRIGLEY at Cardiff Docks, 1948.

S.S. FORT WRIGLEY (7128gt). North Sands type vessel built April 1943 by Victoria Machinery Depot Co., Victoria, Canada, for the Canadian government, and managed by George Nesbit & Co., Glasgow, for MoWT. 1946 - Transferred to Ministry of Transport, and managed by Oakdene Shipping Co. 1948 - Sold by the Canadian government to P & T Steamship Co. and renamed PANTROOPER, managed by Papachristidis Co., Montreal. 1950 - Renamed ROYAL WILLIAM. (same owner). 1954 - Sold to Asimarfield Shipping Corp., Monrovia (name retained). 1956 - Sold to L’Italica di Navigazione, Genoa, and renamed APPULO. She was broken up at Vado Ligure, Italy in 1962.