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Starboard broadside view of S.S. HOLDERNESS at Cardiff Docks.

Built 1920 as MAINDY TOWER by Rennie, Ritchie & Newport Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Wivenhoe, Essex, (with an engine by Plenty & Son, of Newbury), for Jenkins, Richards & Evans Ltd., Cardiff. 1925 – Sold to Geddes & Couper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and renamed GLEDBURN. 1936 – Sold to Kingdon Steamship Co.Ltd. (T.H. Donking & Sons), Middlesbrough, and renamed GRANGETOFT. 1955 – Sold to Holderness Steamship Co. Ltd., Hull, and renamed HOLDERNESS. She became wrecked on the Sow & Pigs Rocks, near Blyth, on 11 March 1959 while bound for Londonderry with a cargo of coal.