Casgliadau Arlein

¾ Port bow view of M.V. ATHELDUKE at Cardiff Docks.

Built 1949 by Sir J. Laing & Sons, Sunderland, for Athel Line Ltd 1952 – While returning to the UK, the ship departed Gibraltar and was ordered to divert to New Orleans – an action which led the crew to refuse to work. HMS ALACRITY was called to the assistance of ATHELDUKE and put on an armed boarding party to restore order and escort the vessel back to Gibraltar. There, seven crew members were tried for mutiny (a hanging offence at that time – a new law was quickly passed to revoke it), and returned to the UK, where “most of them got off”. Apparently, the crew had not been let ashore for almost a year. 1958 – Ownership transferred to Tankers Ltd. She was broken up at Hirao, Japan in 1967.