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.
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    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
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    Photo of SS Winkleigh

    General Cargo ship built in 1940 by William Pickersgill & Sons, Sunderland for Tatem Steamship Company
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