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¾ Port Bow view of S.S. LAKEWOOD, bunkering at Bute East Dock, Cardif, 29 August 1947.

The 570 gross ton steam coaster Lakewood was owned by the splendidly named Onesimus Dorey & Sons of St Peter Port, Guernsey. Built at Aberdeen in 1919, she is seen here taking on bunkers at the bottom of the East Bute Dock, c. 1948. Dorey's vessels were regular visitors to ports in south Wales, loading cargoes of coal for Guernsey's gasworks and anthracite to warm the island's many glasshouses.

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

S.S. LAKEWOOD (570gt). Built 1919 by John Lewis & Sons at Aberdeen as ss HADRIX for Humber Steam Coasters Ltd. (J.R.Rix), Hull. 1921 – Change of ownership to Onesimus Dorey & Sons of Guernsey. She was renamed LAKEWOOD in November 1922. 1939 – Port of registry changed from Guernsey to London for the duration of the war. 1946 – Registry returned to Guernsey. She was broken up at Dunston, Tyneside, in Summer 1956.