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

The 3,908 gross ton Garryvale was one of the numerous turret-deck steamers built by William Doxford & Sons of Sunderland between 1892 and 1911. This peculiar design imparted a number of advantages such as increased longitudinal strength and greater deadweight capacity in relation to net tonnage. Built in 1907 for A. Crawford, Barr & Co. of Glasgow, she was owned by Kristian Hansen of Helsingfors, Finland, when this photograph was taken, c. 1936. Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.