NEWGLADE, built by Doxford at Sunderland in 1944 and delivered to Moor Line as BROCKLEYMOOR, which had traded between 1959 and 1964 as RESTORMEL for John Cory of Cardiff, had retained registry at that port when owned by Waterloo Shipping Co (Tsavliris, London)

Here photographed by John Wiltshire fifty years ago today, on 19th May 1968, as she approached Avonmouth on arrival with a part cargo of sulphur from Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, she underwent repairs in the old dock before sailing on 8th July bound for Varna and then Piraeus where she arrived on 11 September. After a grounding she moved to Kynosoura but suffered a fire in November and arrived at Vado Ligure (Savona) in July 1969 to be broken up.

scanned from a slide in my collection