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Starboard broadside view of S.S. HADLEIGH and tug, c. 1936.

The 5,222 gross ton steamer Hadleigh proceeding up 'the Drain' towards the Roath Basin lock, c. 1936. This vessel was built on the Tees in 1930 to the order of W. J. Tatem & Co. of Cardiff. Tatem was a native of Appledore who set up his own shipping venture in 1897, aged only twenty-nine. He built up a highly successful company and was one of the few Cardiff owners still paying dividends during the difficult inter-war years. The Hadleigh met her end during the Second World War, torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine 11-77 on 16 March 1943.

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

Built 1930 by Furness Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough, engined by Richardson, Westgarth & Co., West Hartlepool, and owned by W.J.Tatem Ltd (Tatem Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Atlantic Shipping & Trading Co.), Cardiff. She was torpedoed on 16 March 1943 by the German submarine U-77 when on route from Algiers for Gibraltar in ballast. She was beached two days later near Oran in two sections and was declared a total loss.