Casgliadau Arlein

Starboard bow view of M.V. PENNYWORTH at Cardiff Docks.

R. S. Dalgleish commenced business as a shipowner at Newcastle in 1906 with the purchase of a single second-hand steamer. Two further vessels were acquired by 1914. The Pennyworth was a 10,978 bulk ore carrier built for Dalgleish at Middlesbrough in 1958 and is seen here discharging a cargo of iron ore at the East Moors terminal in Cardiff's Roath Dock, c.1970. She had been built for a specific fifteen-year BISCO (British Iron & Steel Company Ore) time charter and upon the termination of this charter she was sold to Greek owners in 1973. The Dalgleish firm went into voluntary liquidation in 1979. Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.