Penarth Dock, South Wales - 150 years - the heritage and legacy  
Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage & legacy . . .

Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - George Wehrley - Photographer . . .

The s.s. 'Frankby' moored up at coal tips Nos. 19 and 20 of Penarth Dock at an unknown date but later than 1905 and prior to 1914.

The s.s. 'Frankby' moored up at coal tips Nos. 19 and 20 of Penarth Dock at an unknown date but later than 1905 and prior to 1914.

The s.s. 'Frankby' moored up at coal tips Nos. 19 and 20 of Penarth Dock at an unknown date but later than 1905 and prior to 1914.

The house flag of MacVicar Marshall & Co, Liverpool (Palace Shipping Co) of c.1911.

The house flag of MacVicar Marshall & Company of Liverpool (Palace Shipping Company) dating from c.1911. [123] [National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Daniel Bolt Collection ID: AAA1011]

 

The s.s. 'Frankby' moored up at coal tips Nos. 19 and 20 of Penarth Dock at an unknown date but later than 1905 and prior to 1914. She was built at the yard of Charles Connel & Company Limited of Scotstoun, Glasgow on the River Clyde and launched in 1904. She was owned initially by the Palace Shipping Company of MacVicar, Marshall & Company who were Liverpool based. She was a steel screw steamer of 4,182 gross and 2,618 net registered tons, being 385 feet long x 50 feet breath x 25.7 feet depth.

The postcard is not marked as a George Wehrley & Company publication but the style and technique is identical and hence I have concluded that it is George's work! Another heritage postcard from the Penarth Dock Collection. [001]

She was badly damaged during December 1917 whilst on a voyage from Antofagaste to Marseille with a cargo of nitrate on the famous Formigas Rocks, off St. Michael's in the Azores. She was apparently refloated, repaired and sold on to the Scindia Steam Navigation Company of Bombay, India in 1920 and renamed 'Jalapalka.' She was lost in January 1942 when sunk by a Japanese submarine whilst en-route Bombay for Rangoon.

 
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