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S.S. GLANOWEN, glass negative
Starboard broadside view of S.S. GLANOWEN, arriving at Cardiff Dock, 13 May 1947.
The Harries brothers were natives of Fishguard who established themselves as shipowners at Swansea in 1888. In 1946 their company acquired the 2,066 gross ton steam coaster Empire Peggotty, built at Grangemouth in 1944 and she was renamed Glanowen. She is pictured here arriving at Cardiff, c. 1948. Sold to Liberian owners in 1965, she foundered in the estuary of the River Weser, northern Germany, on 12 March 1967.
Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.
S.S. GLANOWEN (2066gt). Collier built 1944 as EMPIRE PEGGOTTY by Grangemouth Dockyard for MoWT. 1946 – Sold to Harries Bros & Co., Swansea, and renamed GLANOWEN. 1965 – Sold to Balmoral Shipping Corp., Liberia, and renamed BALMORAL (managed by Transocean Maritima S.M.Bull, Spain). She ran aground in the Weser estuary in 1967 and was declared a total loss.