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S.S. CELTIC MONARCH, glass negative
Hansen, Leslie W.
(photographer)
¾ port bow view of S.S. CELTIC MONARCH with tug CARDIFFIAN entering Cardiff Docks.
The evening sun highlights the 5,824 gross ton steamer Celtic Monarch as she arrives at Cardiff, c.1948. She was built at Port Glasgow in 1929 for Raeburn & Verel of Glasgow, a firm established in 1874. The Celtic Monarch was sold to owners in Hull in 1950. Raeburn & Verel ceased trading as shipowners with the sale of their last vessel in I973. (Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993).
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
79.76I/2195
Historical Associations
Association Type: Place name
Place: Cardiff Docks
Creation/Production
Acquisition
purchase, 20/9/1979
Measurements
Length
(mm): 82
Width
(mm): 107
Material
Glass
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