Casgliadau Arlein

Copy of photograph showing a ¾ Starboard bow view of S.S. WILLODALE.

One of Cardiff’s two surviving shipping firms is Charles M. Willie & Co. (Shipping) Ltd., formed in 1913. The company did not own their ships until 1929 when the 1,774 gross ton Willodale, built at Sunderland in 1909, was acquired. This photograph of her was taken as she left Bordeaux with a cargo of pit wood, c. 1936. The Willodale was lost off the estuary of the Gironde on 4 April 1947. Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.