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Starboard bow view of M.V. HINDLEA entering Cardiff Docks.

The Hindlea Shipping Co. Ltd. was established in 1949 by R. D. Lean and J. L. Hindmarsh and in 1952 they bought the 402 gross ton motor coaster Fennel from Lovering & Sons. She was re-named Hindlea by her new owners. On 27 October 1959 she was blown ashore and totally wrecked near Moelfre, Anglesey, in a north-easterly gale similar to that which had wrecked the Royal Charter a century earlier. Coxswain Richard Evans of the Moelfre lifeboat was awarded his first RNLI gold medal for his rescue of the crew of the Hindlea on that terrible night. Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.