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Starboard broadside view of S.S. BEAULY.

A regular visitor to Cardiff for many years was the 1,061 gross ton steamer Beauly. Built at Troon in 1924, she was one of the vessels that maintained the weekly cargo service operated by William Sloan & Co. Ltd. of Glasgow from the Clyde to Swansea, Cardiff and Bristol. She was originally built with accomodation for passengers, but this was removed in 1932. Seen here sailing up 'the Drain' to the warehouse on the East Bute basin, c. 1948, she was eventually scrapped at Antwerp in May 1959.

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

Built 1924 as a passenger / cargo vessel by Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., Troon, for William Sloane & Co., Glasgow for their Glasgow – Belfast – Swansea – Bristol service. The passenger accomodation was removed (in common with all Sloane’s other ships) in 1932. 1939 – Requisitioned by the Admiralty, renamed LOOE and served as a Q-Ship. 1941 – Returned to her owners, and reinstated with her original name. It is not known when her dredging duties began. She was converted from coal firing to oil firing in 1956. 1958 – William Sloane & Co taken over by Coast Lines Ltd. BEAULY was broken up at Willebroek in 1959.