s.s. Unsure! - Another photograph, with colourised version, taken and published by George Wehrley of a steamship high in the water awaiting her cargo of Welsh steam coal and bound for who knows where in the world! She is moored at coal tip no. 10 with no. 9 on the left and no.11 on the right of the image. The postdate is January 1910. Another Wehrley photograph held within the Penarth Dock Collection. [001]

An enlargement of the bow area shows faint witness lettering of a vessel name - I think this may be 'Chema'. There was a ship of that name which is listed in the South Wales Daily News as an Arrival at Swansea South Dock during April 1900 but I am unable to find other references to a merchant vessel of the same name.

It would appear that the bow has recently been repaired and repainted. Note the distinctive change in colour of the hull in an almost vertical line but that there is no apparent change in the remainder of the image at that point, hence, the colour change is factual.

I wonder could it be that the vessel had sustained bow damage and had just been repaired upon the slipway of the Penarth Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Company and was moored up in the dock awaiting the black paint to fully dry before over-painting the vessel's name?