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Three quarter Starboard Bow view of M.V. LADY WOLMER, at Cardiff Dock, c. 1947/1948.

LADY WOLMER (1883gt). A ferro-concrete motorship designed by Sir E. Owen Williams and built 1941 by W & C French Ltd., Newport, Mon., for MoWT, managed by Walford Lines Ltd., London, and registered at Bristol. She was powered by a 3-cylinder oil engine by Wm Doxford & Son Ltd., Sunderland. The actual engine had been on display at the Newcastle Exhibition of 1928 an exhibition and had been kept in working condition until installation in the LADY WOLMER. 1948 – Management transferred to Wheelock & Marden & Co Ltd.., Bristol (who had formerly been the ship’s agent at Shanghai). 1950 – She was attacked near Swatow by Chinese Nationalist aircraft on 26th June, and arrived at Hong Kong with six wounded including the master, Captain T.McCabe. While en route from Hong Kong to Shanghai in January 1951, she was boarded by pirates off the coast of Heisshan (Wenchow Province). They fled, taking passengers’ and crew’s belongings, when a Nationalist gunboat appeared. The ship ran aground on Chejou Island, Korea, on 19 May 1953 and broke up. The crew were rescued by USS HENRICO and HMS NEWCASTLE.