Scale: 1:24. Built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at their Nagasaki yard, Glen Line’s new 21-knot express cargo liner was the first British vessel of her kind ever to be built in Japan. ‘Glenalmond’ (1966) was one of a class of four ‘Priam’-class ships: ‘Pembrokeshire’ was also built by Mitsubishi, while ‘Glenfinlas’ and ‘Radnorshire’ were built at John Brown of Clydebank and Vickers Naval Yard at Newcastle.

All four ships embodied a sophisticated system of control and extensive automation and were designed to trade between Europe and the Far East at a service speed of at least 21 knots. A wide variety of cargoes were carried - refrigerated goods, liquids (vegetable oils, latex, oil additives, and chemicals), and hazardous materials. There was a clear deck space forward of the weather deck for extra-long items, drums, or bulky deck cargo.

Accommodation in ‘Glenalmond’ was of a very high standard with air-conditioning throughout. The floor area devoted to each crewmember was at least double that of comparable ships. All officers and petty officers had individual bathrooms, while the captain’s cabin in each ship of the class was decorated with a specially commissioned abstract mural by Jacqueline Groag.

Within ten years the class was made obsolete by containerization. In 1973 ‘Glenalmond’ was transferred to China Mutual Steam Navigation Co. and renamed ‘Patroclus’, operating a joint service with Swedish America Line. In 1984 it was condemned after arriving on fire at Port Rashid, UAE. Sold to a local company it was sent, later that year, to Gadani Beach in Pakistan for breaking up.