Casgliadau Arlein

Starboard bow view of H.M.S. FORTH entering Cardiff Docks. Tugs also in image.

The submarine depot ship HMS Forth was, at 8,900 tons, one of the largest vessels in the Royal Navy, aircraft carriers excepted. Built at Glasgow in 1938, she was moored on the Clyde for most of the Second World War, acting as a depot ship for submarines operating in the north Atlantic. For this purpose she carried a wide range of facilities such as a foundry, machine shops, torpedo repair shops and plant for charging submarines' batteries. She was sold in 1985 and broken up at Kingsnorth. Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.