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Port bow view of M.V. RIEVAULX entering Cardiff Docks. Tugs also in image.

The Bolton Steam Shipping Co. Ltd. was established by Frederic Bolton in London in 1884 and he took delivery of the newly-built steamer Raphael a year later. Most of the ships subsequently owned by the firm were named after artists. The Rievaulx was a 10,974 gross ton ore carrier built at Middlesbrough in 1958 and is seen here arriving at Cardiff with a cargo of iron ore for the East Moors steelworks, c. 1965. She was one of many vessels built for a specific fifteen-year BISCO (British Iron & Steel Company Ore) charter and was sold to Greek owners in 1973 upon the termination of that charter. The Bolton firm ceased shipowning in 1988.

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

Bulk ore carrier built 1958 by Smith’s Dock Co., Middlesbrough, with a 4-cylinder Doxford engine. This was one of four ships built for North Yorkshire Shipping Co. Ltd., a company formed in 1954 and operated by Bolton Steam Shipping Company Ltd., specifically for handling ore for BISCO. 1973 – Sold to Silver Lake Shipping, Piraeus, and renamed SILVER LAKE. 1973 – Sold to Kimolos Shipping, Piraeus, and renamed NEMA. She was broken up at China in 1984. (MarinersList - Bolton Steam Shipping Co)