George Adlam & Sons
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George Adlam & Sons Ltd was an iron and brass foundry and engineering company in Fishponds, Bristol, England.
The Adlams Works or the Mill as seen today
Blue Funnel Line
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Alfred Holt and Company, trading as Blue Funnel Line, was a UK shipping company that was founded in 1866 and operated merchant ships for 122 years. It was one of the UK's larger shipowning and operati
George Adlam & Sons
…the Pacific Theatre in World War II capable of making 250 barrels of beer a week. Initially four were ordered, but this reduced to two and the former Blue Funnel Line 7,500 ton auxiliary minesweepers Agamemnon and Menestheus, were outfitted in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in the summer of 1945. Only Menestheus…
14,499 GRT passenger liner Ulysses. U-160 sank her in 1942 but all 290 people aboard survived.
Painting of the 9,076 GRT Cyclops approaching Hong Kong. U-123 sank her in 1942 with the loss of 87 lives. The painting is in the Museum of Liverpool; the artist is unknown.
10,198 GRT cargo ship Rhexenor in 1953
7,494 GRT cargo ship Menestheus in King George V Dock, London