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¾ Port bow view of Dutch coaster FIVEL approaching the Roath Basin lock, Cardiff with a deck cargo of sawn timber, c.1936.

The 306 gross ton Dutch coaster Fivel approaching the Roath Basin lock with a deck cargo of sawn timber, c. 1937. Built at Groningen in 1936, she was typical of the small and efficient motor coasters developed during the 1930s by Dutch builders. Requiring a smaller crew as there were no stokers, and carrying oil bunkers in their double bottoms, vessels such as these posed a serious threat to the traditional steam coaster still favoured by many British owners at the time.

Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.

(306gt) : Built 1936 by Shipyard Gideon V/H J. Koster Hzn., Groningen, as mv FIVEL for Jan Bont of Groningen. 1940 – Found herself at St.Malo with a load of coal, where she was seized by the Netherlands' Shipping & Trading Committee, London, managed by Freight Express Ltd., London, (later by Craggs & Jenkins Ltd., Hull). 1945 – Returned to Jan Bont, Groningen as FIVEL 1951 - sold to H H Borregaard, Loppersum, and renamed HENRIETTE B. 1959 - sold to Franz Husmann of Haren (Ems), and renamed HELENA HUSMANN; she was lengthened in 1961. 1966 - Sold to Albert Zohr, Duisburg, renamed ALBERT ZOHR. Her original 5-cylinder "Bolnes" engine was replaced at this time by a 295 hp 4-cylinder MWM engine. 1969 - Scrapped at Hamburg by Eckhardt & Co., commencing in the January.