Bronze Age Gold from Wales
S.S. PENDEEN, glass negative
¾ Starboard bow view of S.S. PENDEEN and tug, Cardiff Docks, c.1947.
The Chellew Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. had its origins in Truro in 1888 when R. B. Chellew bought his first steamship. The firm was taken over by Frank Shearman of Cardiff in 1920, and he maintained the practice of naming the firm's vessels after Cornish place-names starting with the prefix 'Pen-'. The 4,174 gross ton Pendeen was built for Chellew's at West Hartlepool in 1923 and is seen here in the Queen Alexandra Dock, c. 1948.
Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.
ss. PENDEEN(2) (4174gt) : Built 1923 by Irvine’s Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool (triple expansion engine by Blair & Co. Ltd., Stockton), for the Chellew Steam Navigation Co., Cardiff, and managed by F.C. Perman. 1954 – Sold to Turkey (Sadikzade Denizcilik Ltd, Istanbul?) and renamed MUSTAFA. She was broken up in 1961.