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Starboard view of the S.S. EMBIRICOS with white cliffs of Dover in background and sailing boat to left. Signed and dated bottom right.

The Embiricos was completed in 1893 by Sir Raylton Dixon of Middlesborough for Alcibiades Embiricos of Andros, Greece. In 1896, another member of the family, Stamatios, came to Cardiff, and he often ‘fixed’ the Embiricos to load a cargo at the booming coal port. In this picture, however, the vessel is seen in the Straits of Dover, probably bound for Dunkirk with a cargo of grain from a Black Sea port.

The EMBIRICOS was built in Middlesborough in 1893 for the Greek shipowner Alcibiades Embiricos. In 1896 his son Stamatios moved to Cardiff to obtain coal cargoes for his father's ships and this pictuire hung in the company's Cardiff office. The Embiricos family remain major shipowners today (2005)

Built 1893 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co., Middlesbrough (triple-expansion engine by J. Dickinson, Sunderland), for Alcibiades Embiricos, Andros. 1901 – Sold to Michael Jebsen of Hamburg, and renamed EMMA. 1904 – Sold to the Imperial Russian Navy, renamed KOLUIMA (or KOLYMA), and converted to an armed transport ship. 1913 – Re-assigned as a depot ship and renamed BLOKSHIP No.6. 1916 – Re-assigned to the Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Vladivostok, and renamed VITIM. 1923 – Sold to P.M.Nomikos, Piraeus, and renamed PETROS NOMIKOS. She was broken up in the UK in 1933. (ref - teesbuiltships.co.uk/rayltondixon)