| Summary: | The note with the photograph reads, "M.V. 'Eminence' renamed 'Elizabeth'. North Atlantic Bulkcargoes Ltd. (Rorke), Carbonear, NFLD." Launched across the river Dee, northwards and she is being carried downriver by the flow, waiting for the tugs to take her in tow. She is surrounded by timber from the launch cradle and "poppets", with the end of the launch ways in the foreground. -- Ship history: "Eminence," official number 166747, built in Aberdeen and registered at Rochester in 1945, motor vessel, 555 gross tons. Originally owned by the London & Rochester Co., Ltd. Sold in 1967 to North Atlantic Bulkcargoes Ltd., Rochester/Carbonear, Newfoundland, and renamed "Elizabeth". Sold again in 1981 and registered at George Town, Cayman Islands. In 1983, the vessel was reported as "Broken up in the Caribbean", and in 1992, it was deleted from Lloyd's Register as "existence in doubt". Cataloguer's title. The Rorke Family Photograph Collection contains 301 black and white and 28 colour photographs of the Rorke Family of Carbonear, Newfoundland, as well as the Forward and Bemister families from that area who are linked to it by marriage. Although spanning from the 1840s-1970s, most photos are from 1900-45, showing family events, homes and Newfoundland and Labrador locations. There is also an album of photos taken while James Rorke attended the Leys School in Cambridge, England.
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