The Hansen Collection
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- Identifier
- 001-0001
- Title
- The Hansen Collection
- Description
- Images of ships in and around Cardiff Docks taken between 1920 and 1975 by the local photographic firm of Lars Peter Hansen and his son Leslie.
Leslie Hansen was also contracted to Associated British Ports and its predecessors that managed Cardiff Docks. Much more of his photography can be seen in the ABP Collection. - Type
- Collection
- Format
- 134 photographs
- Date
- 1920-1975
- Creator
- Lars Peter Hansen & Leslie W Hansen
- Contributor
- BHAC/National Museum Wales
- Language
- No linguistic data
- Rights
- © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Any request for commercial use should be referred to them. - Subject
- This collection is a selection of images from the full archive held by National Museum Wales.
For more information visit the article on the Museum website here
The full catalogue can be viewed here in PDF format
Collection Items
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Photo of SS Graig
Owned by Graig Shipping.
General cargo ship built in 1924 by Robert Duncan & Co, Port Glasgow.
Stranded and later broke in two off Egg Island, 28 miles east of Halifax when outward for Aberdeen with lumber.
Both sections refloated and broken up at Halifax. -
Photo of SS Peterston
Owned by Evan Thomas Radcliffe & Co
General cargo vessel built by Bartram & Co., South Dock, Sunderland in 1925. Sold on in 1948 and scrapped in 1959 -
Photo of SS Llandaff
Owned by Evan Thomas Radcliife & Co
General Cargo vessel built 1937 by Bartram & Sons, Sunderland.
Sold on 1951 and broken up in 1959 -
Photo of SS Llanishen
Owned by Evan Thomas Radcliife & Co
Tanker built as Rye Cove. Purchased from Ministry of War Transport in 1947.
Sold on in 1956 and scrapped in 1962 -
Photo of SS Llanberis
Seen here loading coal
Owned by Evan Thomas Radcliife & Co
General cargo ship built in 1928 by Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn on the Tyne. Sold on in 1950 and broken up in 1960. -
Photo of SS Bradglen
Owned by William Reardon Smith & Sons
Built in 1930 by William Gray & Co, West Hartlepool
Mined in 1941 off Harwich on passage Jacksonville and Halifax for London with the loss of 9 crew. -
Photo of MV Atlantic City
Owned by William Reardon Smith & Sons
Built in 1941 by Wm.Doxford at Pallion. Sold on in 1962 an foundered in 1971 -
Photo of SS Nolisement
Owned by Morel Bros Shipping
Built in 1927 by Northumberland Shipbuilding on the Tyne.
Sold on in 1950 and broken up in 1966. -
Photo of SS Pontypridd
Owned by Morel Bros Shipping
Built in 1924 by Northumberland Shipbuilding on the Tyne.
Sunk by U-Boats in 1942 on voyage from Immingham to Canada in ballast with 2 casualties of the 4 crew onboard. The Master, Herbert V B Morden, was made a prisoner of War -
Photo of SS Campus
Built in 1925 by Northumberland Shipbuilding on the Tyne.
Seen here at the dockside with a cargo of timber
Owned by W.H. Seager & Co Ltd group
Sold on in 1946 and broken up in 1952 -
Photo of SS Ruperra
A general cargo ship built in 1925 William Gray & Co West Hartlepool and owned by John Cory & Sons Ltd,
On the 19th October 1940 when on route from New York for Greenock and Leith in Convoy HX-79 and carrying a cargo of steel billets, scrap iron and aircraft when she was torpedoed by German submarine U-46 and sunk about 90 miles Sw of Rockall. 29 crew members and 1 gunner lost from a total crew of 36. -
Photo of SS Graiglas
General cargo ship built in 1940 by Joseph L. Thompson & Sons in Sunderland for Graig Shipping.
Took part in many WW2 convoys -
Photo of SS Ramillies
General crago ship built 1951 as SEAWALL by William Gray & Co., West Hartlepool bought in 1955 by John Cory & Sons group, and renamed RAMILLIES. -
Photo of SS Graigddu
General cargo ship built by Wm. Pickersgill at Sunderland in 1941 as Empire Marriott and purchased by Graig Shipping in 1946
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Photo of SS Umberleigh
General cargo ship built in 1927 by William Gray & Co Ltd of Hartlepool for Tatem Steamship Company -
Photo of SS Winkleigh
General Cargo ship built in 1940 by William Pickersgill & Sons, Sunderland for Tatem Steamship Company
Collection Tree
- Photographs
- The Hansen Collection