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The 4,093 gross ton steamer Dartford, built at Middlesbrough in 1930, arriving at Cardiff, c.1936. This vessel was owned by the London-based company of Watts, Watts & Co. which had its origins in a shipping agency stablished at Blyth in 1851. All their vessels were named after London suburbs; the Dartford had two identical sisters named Deptford and Dulwich. The Dartford was torpedoed and sunk in the north Atlantic on 12 June 1942, Watts, Watts & Co. were taken over by the Liverpool-based Bibby Line in 1968. (Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993).