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Port broadside view of S.S. CORYTON at Cardiff Docks, c.1936.

John Cory was born in Padstow where he was already the owner of a number of sailing vessels before deciding to move to Cardiff in 1872. By 1900 his sons were operating a fleet of twenty-three steamers. The steamer Coryton pictured here was a 4,553 gross ton vessel built at West Hartlepool in 1928; she is seen here in the Roath Dock, c. 1936. She was named after the Cory family home, which by today has given the name Coryton to a suburb in north Cardiff. Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.