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Starboard broadside view of S.S. BENGORE HEAD, Cardiff Docks about 1936

Belfast's best-known shipping firm was the Head Line, founded in 1877 by James and Frederick Heyn, sons of Gustavus Heyn, the former Prussian consul in Belfast. Head Line operated a cargo liner service from Belfast to numerous ports on the eastern seaboard of north America, with feeder services from certain European ports, particularly in the Baltic. The Bengore Head was a 2,609 gross ton steamer built at West Hartlepool in 1922, is seen here discharging pit wood at Cardiff, c.1936. She was torpedoed and sunk in the north Atlantic on 9 May 1941. (Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993).