Casgliadau Arlein

3/4 port stern view of the four-masted barque HERZOGIN CECILIE at Cardiff Docks, c.1936.

The last European shipowner to operate deep-sea sailing vessels was Gustav Erikson of the Åland Islands in the Baltic. One of numerous such vessels that he bought in the 1920s was the 3,111 gross ton barque Herzogin Cecilie, built originally as a sail-training vessel in 1902. Erikson employed these vessels in the grain trade from Australia, and this view was taken when the vessel discharged grain from Port Lincoln at Cardiff in April 1928. Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.