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Port bow view of S.S. LLANDAFF entering Cardiff Docks. Watermans boat also in image.

The Radcliffe company was taken over by the Cardiff fuel factors Evans & Reid in 1947, and the ships were given new liveries and fleur-de-lys funnel markings in place of the 'Cardiff British India Line' black funnel and two white bands. The Sunderland-built Llandaff of 1937, a 4,826 gross ton steamer, is seen here arriving at Cardiff in the new colours, c.1950. Sold to German owners in 1951, she was eventually stranded at Esbjerg in 1959 and broken up at Ghent later that year. The author's great-uncle, Captain John Rees Jenkins of Aber-porth, Dyfed was the first master of this vessel when she joined the Radcliffe fleet in 1937. Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.