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Starboard bow view of M.V. HINDLEA entering Cardiff Docks.

The Hindlea Shipping Co. Ltd. was established in 1949 by R. D. Lean and J. L. Hindmarsh and in 1952 they bought the 402 gross ton motor coaster Fennel from Lovering & Sons. She was re-named Hindlea by her new owners. On 27 October 1959 she was blown ashore and totally wrecked near Moelfre, Anglesey, in a north-easterly gale similar to that which had wrecked the Royal Charter a century earlier. Coxswain Richard Evans of the Moelfre lifeboat was awarded his first RNLI gold medal for his rescue of the crew of the Hindlea on that terrible night. Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.

M.V. HINDLEA. Built 1941 as EMPIRE ISLE by the Henry Scarr yard, Hessle (owned by Richard Dunston Ltd.) for MoWT. 1945 – Sold to Brook Shipping Co., and renamed SUFFOLKBROOK. 1946 – Transferred to Comben, Longstaff & Co., managed by Williamstown Shipping Ltd., London (same name). 1948 – Sold to Lovering & Son, Cardiff, and renamed FENNEL. 1952 – Sold to Hindlea Shipping Co. Ltd., and renamed HINDLEA, managed byJ.L.Hindmarsh, Cardiff. The vessel was lengthened in 1959 bringing her to 506gt. She was abandoned off Anglesey, and her crew rescued by the Moelfre lifeboat, during a gale while en route from Weston Point near Runcorn to Newport. She was driven ashore at Amlwch and broke in two, resulting in a total constructive loss.