‎LLOYD ROYAL BELGE (Great Britain) Ltd - (Late BRYS and GYLSEN) Shipbuilders WHITEINCH Glasgow :‎
‎LLOYD ROYAL BELGE (Great Britain) Ltd - (Late BRYS and GYLSEN) Shipbuilders WHITEINCH Glasgow - Photo Album.‎

‎ LLoyd Royal Belge Ltd, Glasgow (publisher), s.d. (1920), large oblong in-4° album, 30 x 38 cm, bound in full black leather, covers with gilt ornaments, all edges gilt. Endpapers coverd with white real silk. The album contains 1 portrait (Henry Gylsen) + 40 original photographs, mounted on 20 thick board leaves, photo size 23 x 28 cm, depicting the shipyard and the steamship Londonier under construction. Very well preserved photography album. The shipyard Lloyd Royal Belge in Glasgow (originally called Brys and Gylsen) was used during the First World War by the Belgians. The company was taken over during the shipping crises in 1930 by CMB (Compagnie Maritime Belge). The SS Londonier, as seen on the pictures was originally built as WWI Standard ship called War Kochia, 5582 Tons. It was completed as Londonier and came in 1930 under the CMB flag, 1939 Illenao, Agencia Maritima Colon (Panama). 1940 Syoto Maru, later Shoto Maru, Matsuoka Kisen KK, Ashiya (Japan). It was torpedoed and sunk by the USS Seawolff on August 31st 1943 at 28.27 N 128.03 E. (East China Sea, Ryukyu Islands).(With thanks to Mariners-I.co.UK for this information)..‎

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