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¾ Starboard bow view of M.V. CAPE RODNEY entering Cardiff Docks. Tug also in image.

A fine study of the Cape Rodney entering the Queen Alexandra lock at Cardiff, c. 1959, her deck cargo of sawn timber having caused her to develop a list to starboard. This 6,339 gross ton motor vessel was built at Glasgow in 1946 for the Lyle Shipping Co. Ltd. of Glasgow. This firm was established in 1903 by Alexander Park Lyle, son of the noted Greenock sugar merchant Abram Lyle whose company merged with Henry Tate & Sons of Liverpool in 1920 to form Tate & Lyle. The Cape Rodney was sold to Panamanian owners in 1963, whilst Lyle Shipping went into receivership in May 1987.

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

M.V. CAPE RODNEY. Built 1946 by Lithgows, Port Glasgow, with Doxford oil engine by David Rowan & Co., Glasgow, for Cape of Good Hope Motorship Company (Lyle Shipping). 1963 – Sold to Blue Shark Steamship Co., Panama, and renamed BLUE DOLPHIN. 1965 – Sold to Hariet Eidiki Anon. Naftiliaki Etairia, Piraeus, and renamed HARIET, managed by Halcoussis & Co. She was broken up at Shanghai in 1971.