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Starboard broadside view of S.S. ARDRI , c.1932.

The 487 gross ton steam coaster Ardri was built at Glasgow in 1892 as Coral for Wm. Robertson's Gem Line. She was acquired by the well-known Amlwch-based shipbuilders and owners, William Thomas & Sons in 1923 and was employed by them chiefly in the Irish Sea tramping trades. She is seen here arriving at Cardiff, c. 1935, not long before she foundered off Bardsey on 22 January 1936, whilst bound from London to Glasgow with a cargo of cement.

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

ARDRI. Built 1892 by John Shearer & Sons, Kelvinhaugh, Glasgow as CORAL for William Robertson, Glasgow (later known as the 'Gem Line'). 1915 - Sold to J. McElvie (Glasgow) and renamed ARDRI. Sold again in July 1916 to William Grey for the Alliance & Dublin Consumers Gas Co. of Dublin. They were the main Dublin gas company and had acquired their own vessel due to the vagaries of the First World War. 1923 - Sold to William Thomas (Amlwch). She sprang a leak in January 1936 while carrying cement from London to Glasgow and sank 35 miles west of Bardsey Island.