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3/4 Starboard bow view of S.S. NORTH ANGLIA, c.1948.

Captain Hugh Roberts was a native of Edern on the LIŷn Peninsula. He moved to Newcastle in 1874 and in 1877 established the North Shipping Co. Ltd. to acquire his first steamer, the North Britain. This photograph shows the North Anglia arriving at Cardiff, c. 1948. This 6,966 gross ton steamer was built at Sunderland in 1941 as the Empire Wyclif and was bought by North Shipping in 1946. Sold to Hong Kong owners in 1960, she was broken up at Hirohata, Japan in 1967. The North Shipping Co. Ltd. went out of existence in 1964 when it was taken over by another Newcastle firm, Common Brothers.

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

S.S. NORTH ANGLIA (6966gt). Built 1941 by Short Brothers, Glasgow, as the EMPIRE WYCLIFF for MoWT (managed by Dene Shipping Co until 1942, then by Hugh Roberts & Sons). 1946 – Sold to Northern Steamship Co. Ltd., Newcastle (managed by Hugh Roberts & Sons), and renamed NORTH ANGLIA (3). 1960 – Sold to Mariner Shipping Co., Hong Kong, and renamed HAPPY MARINER. 1962 – Sold to Ideal Shipping Co., Hong Kong (managed by Wheelock, Marden & Co.). 1965 – Sold to Isis Shipping Co., Nassau, Bahamas. 1966 – Sold to Vanguard Shipping Co., Hong Kong. She arrived at Horohata, Japan in February 1967 for breaking up. .