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Starboard broadside view of S.S. AROSA, at Cardiff Docks about 1947/1948.

The Arosa, seen here in the Roath Dock, c. 1948, was built at Three Rivers near Quebec in 1922 for service on the Great Lakes. She is easily identified as a Great Lakes vessel by her bridge located right forward on the forecastle. Many of these vessels found themselves in trans-Atlantic convoys during the Second World War, and by the date of this photograph she was owned by Panamanian shipowners, operating far away from the waters for which she was originally built. (Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993).