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¾ Port bow view of S.S. FORTHBANK entering Cardiff Docks.

Andrew Weir established himself as a shipowner at Glasgow in 1885. He acquired his first steamer in 1896 and by the 1920s an extensive world-wide network of cargo liner routes had been established under the title of the Bank Line Ltd. The Forthbank, seen here arriving at Cardiff, c.1950, was a 5,057 gross ton steamer built at Belfast in 1929. Sold to Italian owners in 1953, she was broken up in Hong Kong in 1959. Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.