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¾ Port bow view of M.V. FLAMMULINA at Roath Dock, Cardiff.

The Flammulina was an 8,203 gross ton motor tanker built at Belfast tn 1943 as the Empire Industry. In 1946 she was bought by Anglo-Saxon Tankers, the shipping division of Shell Petroleum and re-named after a particular type of shell, as were all the Anglo-Saxon tankers. Seen here in the Roath Dock in the early 1950s, she was broken up at Hong Kong in 1960. (Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993).

M.V. FLAMMULINA. Built 1943 as EMPIRE INDUSTRY (2) by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, for MoWT (managed by Gow, Harrison & Co). 1946 – Sold to Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co.,London, and renamed FLAMMULINA. She was broken up at Hong Kong in 1960.