Sixty years ago, Palomba & D'Amato of Torre del Greco (near Napoli)'s PEPPINO PALOMBA had called at Avonmouth with a cargo of animal feeding stuffs from Montevideo, sailing on 7th April 1964 in ballast for Montreal. Here she is seen Penarth Head, outbound from Cardiff, in July 1961.

EX-BETEIGEUZE-61 (Orion Schiffahrts-Ges.Reith & Co KG, Hamburg)

EX-WELSH TRADER-51 (Trader Nav Co Ltd, London) - built by Thompson at Sunderland in 1938

Following a grounding she passed Istanbul on 6th April 1970 bound from the Med to Constantza and arrived at La Spezia on 22.5.70 for breaking

Scanned from a negative in my collection by the late W.D. (Des) Harris of Penarth