Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Pierhead, Cardiff, photograph
Pierhead building, Cardiff, showing the S.S. PORTIA (Liverpool & South Wales S.S. Co. Ltd.) leaving West Bute Basin. Severn trow CAROLINE and Falmouth tug (SYLPH? / St.BOTOLPH?) moored between the dock entrances.
The CAROLINE was built at Framilode in around 1830. By 1868, she had been converted from clinker built and smack rigged, to carvel built and ketch rigged for more sea-going trade. In about 1910 she was owned by Wallbridge of Cardiff and in the coal trade mostly carrying between Bridgwater and Bristol.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
91.140I
Creation/Production
unknown
Date: 1907 (circa)
Acquisition
Donation, 12/12/1991
Measurements
Length (mm): 470
Width (mm): 1018
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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